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.
Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.
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.
There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.