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.

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

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

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

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

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.