The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

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

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

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

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.