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

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

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

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.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

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.