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

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.

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

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.

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

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.