Overview

 
Many of Nkrumah's speeches can be found in the books, Autobiography (1957); I Speak of Freedom (1958); Voice from Conakry (1967b)and Revolutionary Path (1973).  G. K. Osei (1970), Samuel Obeng (1997), and H. E. Joe-Fio N. Meyer (1990) also produced compilations of Nkrumah's speeches.  Osei's compilation, titled, 12 Key Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah was cited in a number of tertiary works that I examined.  Obeng's compilation is by far more extensive than Osei's.  With the exception of one key speech, the speeches in Osei's compilation are included in Nkrumah or Obeng's compilations.  The importance of that exceptional speech lay in its directives and statements of qualified agency.  It was one of Nkrumah's last speeches of its type to the Convention People's Party (CPP).