Ghana Quotes

I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. (Donald Evans)
The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa. View quote
Kwame Nkrumah
In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana. View quote
Amanda Hearst
My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option. View quote
Ato Essandoh
We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people. View quote
Ade Edmondson
I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. View quote
Claudio Reyna
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. View quote
John Dramani Mahama
Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide. View quote
Taiye Selasi
We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. View quote
Maya Angelou
Ghana has something to say to us. It says to us first, that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it. ... Freedom is never given to anybody. For the oppressor has you in domination because he plans to keep you there, and he never voluntarily gives it up. And that is where the strong resistance comes. Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established. View quote
Ed Royce
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. View quote
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston. View quote
Taiye Selasi
The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou. View quote
Taiye Selasi
I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away. View quote
Uzo Aduba
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. View quote
Shirley Temple
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. View quote
Bill Gates
Like chewing gum or hair gel, water [according to the World Bank and IMF] is to be sold by the private sector at market rates. The needs of the people are all that's left out of this equation.... [A] World Bank document cites the "willingness to pay" on the part of the people in Ghana as evidence of their recognition of the "health benefits" of drinkable water. It's amazing, isn't it, how people are "willing" to pay huge amounts for things that they need in order to survive! View quote
Linda McQuaig
We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society. We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers. We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis for our socialist society, Socialism without science is void. ... View quote
Kwame Nkrumah
It is said that Ghana obtained its gold by "silent” or "dumb” barter which was described as follows:. (Walter Rodney)