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

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

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.

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

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

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

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