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A Few Words From JE Casely Hayford ...

Monday October 19, 2009
"You may destroy a nation, but it is another thing to destroy the spirit of nationality."

From Gold Coast Native Institutions With Thoughts Upon A Healthy Imperial Policy For The Gold Coast And Ashanti by Casely Hayford, Pub Sweet and Maxwell, 1903.

"Africa [is] the cradle of the world's systems and philosophies and the nursing mother of its religions."

From Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation by JE Casely Hayford, London, 1911.

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