January 2001 Sound clip:  This clip is an excerpt from Kwame Nkrumah's charge to the Heads of States at the founding meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Ethiopia, 25 May 1963.  The text of this speech can be found in Nkrumah's text, Revolutionary Path.  The spoken versions of Nkrumah's speeches were not grammatically exact as the written versions and, as you will be able to tell, are impacted by his proximity to the audience.  Nkrumah was a speaker that became one with his audience and therefore he would not mechanically stick to each word and punctuation of his prepared presentation.  He didn't, however, veer from his intended message.

A note about this particular clip:  this excerpt was produced by Johnny Botchway in 1976 and has a slight organ accompaniment in the background.  To get a copy of the tape, which includes other excerpted speeches, you can write to Mr. Botchway at:  P.O. Box 10677, Accra-North, Ghana, West Africa (this is the address posted on the tape).