Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

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

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

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

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

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