Nkrumah's Speeches

Literature Review
Introduction

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Nkrumah's Speeches
-Overview
--Osei's compilation
--Meyer's text
--Obeng's compilation
--Context
--Other sources

-Pan-African pres.
-Operational pres.
-Ideological pres.
-Afrocentric pres.

Nkrumah's
Written Works

Testimony of Key
African Revolutionaries

Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Tertiary Sources

Nkrumah's Speeches

Obeng's compilation

Obeng's compilation is a five-volume set totaling 915 pages covering 118 speeches made from 1960 through February 1966. Volumes 1 and 2 were originally published in 1979. They covered Nkrumah's speeches made during the years 1960 and 1961. These volumes were republished in 1997 with three additional volumes. The full 1997 edition was published by Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd., Accra, Ghana, and is titled Selected Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah (hereafter referred to as Selected Speeches.)

Selected Speeches suffers slightly from typos but the damage never amounts to incomprehension. When, however, there was an opportunity to utilize Nkrumah's compilation for the same speech then his work was chosen. When Nkrumah published extracts of a speech Selected Speeches was used to observe the full content.