The struggle for independence in the Gold Coast was not entirely characterized by protest movements. For a fact, civil deliberation played a major feature. While the struggle for freedom through civil deliberation between the colonized and the colonizer seems unlikely, it was partly the case in Gold Coast. Kwame Nkrumah's invention in the Gold Coast Colonial Assembly serves as a key rhetorical exemplar of a civil deliberation towards the freedom of the oppressed. The paper therefore examines the rhetorical strategies in Nkrumah's Motion for Independence which laid a key deliberative foundation for the struggle for independence in the Gold Coast. This has implications for deliberative rhetorical practice in Africa as the continent struggles for political emancipation.