Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

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

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.

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.

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.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

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