Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, address at Ghana’s Independence celebrations,  6 March 1957.

Patrice Lumumba, first Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of the Congo, speech at the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo's Independence, 30 June 1960.

From Nelson Mandela’s “I am prepared to die speech”, 20 April 1964.

Footage from All-African People’s Conference (AAPC), Accra, December 1958.
 

Milton Apollo Obote, Uganda’s first Prime Minister, 9 October 1962.

Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, collection of clips from various speeches.