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

"When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha…"

"We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy."

"The purpose of development is to increase mankind's ability to control his own environment and to make his life better."

"No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation."