Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.