We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Our view is that we would want to see the situation in Ireland resolved, but we do not intervene in that situation for tactical reasons. Our view is commonly known that imperialism wherever it is must be fought and that justice must be done in Ireland.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we wanted it, this is not the time to do it; it would raise more contradictions in the Patriotic Front.