Quote by Kwame Nkrumah: “Seek ye first the political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you.”

This quote teaches that achieving political independence and self-governance is the absolute first step for any nation seeking true progress. It means that once a people control their own destiny, they can then build economic prosperity and social justice.

Ghana was on the cusp of independence from British colonial rule, and Nkrumah was articulating the primary objective for African nations: gaining political self-determination as the foundation for all other development.

Ghanaian pan-Africanist politician and the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana after independence in 1957. His 1963 book Africa Must Unite outlined the case for a continental African government, and he was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity. He was overthrown in a coup in 1966.