{"id":45,"date":"2022-04-04T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/?p=45"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:33:50","slug":"letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-ghana-ministry-of-the-interior-february-17-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-ghana-ministry-of-the-interior-february-17-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"To Ghana Ministry of the Interior, February 17, 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-45-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/march-on-4_21_22-4.05-PM.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/march-on-4_21_22-4.05-PM.wav\">https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/march-on-4_21_22-4.05-PM.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/06MarchOn.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-139 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/06MarchOn.gif\" alt=\"sheet music for March On\" width=\"451\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;March On&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Way o-ver in the E-gypt land,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You shall gain the vic-to-ry,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Sundquist, 502)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-11\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"11\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"To Boateng\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 17, 1963\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honorable Kwaku Boateng\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minister of the Interior\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honorable Sir:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am happy to address you this morning as a citizen of the Republic of Ghana. All the logic of my life leads me to this place. My great-grand\u00adfather was carried away in chains from the Gulf of Guinea. I have returned that my dust shall mingle with the dust of my forefathers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the poem &#8220;Ghana Calls&#8221; which I wrote on the occasion of the inauguration of the First President of the Republic of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, I attempted to express something of my inner feelings about the rebirth of this valiant African nation. The months during which I have lived among you have strengthened my deep bonds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is not much time left for me. But now my life will flow on in the vigorous, young stream of Ghana&#8217;s national life which lifts the African Personality to its proper place among men. And I shall not have lived and worked in vain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Very sincerely yours,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">W.E.B. Du Bois\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Ghana Ministry of the Interior, February 17, 1963. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. https:\/\/credo.library.umass.edu\/view\/full\/mums312-b161-i178.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Way o-ver in the E-gypt land, You shall gain the vic-to-ry, (Sundquist, 502) &nbsp; Transcript: February 17, 1963\u00a0 Honorable Kwaku Boateng\u00a0 Minister of the Interior\u00a0 Accra.\u00a0 Honorable Sir:\u00a0 I am happy to address you this morning as a citizen of the Republic of Ghana. 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