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

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

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

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

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

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

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.