It Africans were left in peace on their own lands, Europeans would have to offer them the benefits of white civilization in real earnest before they could obtain the African labour which they want so much. They would have to offer the African a way of life which was really superior to the one his fathers lived before, and a share in the prosperity given them by their command of science. They would have to let the African choose what parts of European culture could be beneficially transplanted, and how they could be adapted ... The African is conditioned, by cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever.

Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from the conclusion to his book Facing Mount Kenya, 1938.

Europeans assume that, given the right knowledge and ideas, personal relations can be left largely to take care of themselves, and this is perhaps the most fundamental difference in outlook between Africans and Europeans.

Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from his book Facing Mount Kenya, 1938.

You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from an Independence Day message to the people, as quoted in Sanford Ungars Africa, the People and Politics of an Emerging Continent, New York, 1985.

To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from the dedication in his book Facing Mount Kenya, 1938.

Dont be fooled into looking to Communism for food.

Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, as quoted in David Lambs The Africans, New York, 1985.

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our