J. E. Casely Hayford Quotes

Ghanaian politician (1866-1930)

Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, MBE (29 September 1866 – 11 August 1930), also known as Ekra-Agyeman, was a prominent Fante Gold Coast journalist, editor, author, lawyer, educator, and politician who supported pan-African nationalism. His 1911 novel is one of the earliest novels published in English by an African.

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Alternative Names: Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford • Ekra-Agyeman • Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford

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It had been felt for a long time by men of light and leading in Fanti-land that the salvation of the people depended upon education; that to educate the youths of the country properly depended upon trained teachers; and that it was the work of a university to provide such training ground.

You are only drifting, drifting, drifting away from the ancient moorings that you Westerners built in sand. Jesus Christ came from the East. In Bethlehem he was born, and in Egypt was he nurtured; and, yet, you seek to teach Him us. We have caught His Spirit and live; you follow the letter and are tossed hither and thither by every wind. Forgive me when I say that the future of the world is with the East. The nation that can, in the next century, show the greatest output of spiritual strength, that is the nation that shall lead the world, and as Buddha from Africa taught Asia, so may Africa again lead the way.

Who says he is equal with God?
Man is to-day, to-morrow he is not,
Iam is from eternity to eternity.

There has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity.