Missionaries taught Africans to despise their tribal culture, telling them it was in conflict with the modern world. No effort…
Browsing: African Values & Philosophy
African cultures are not tied to a golden age in which there can be found, pure and complete, a priceless…
Physical enslavement is tragic enough; but the mental and spiritual bondage that makes people despise their own culture is much…
African nationalism is meaningless, is anachronistic, and is dangerous, if it is not at the same time Pan-Africanism.
Our recognition of the family to which we all belong must be extended yet further – beyond the tribe, the…
Socialism, like democracy, is an attitude of mind. In a socialist society it is the socialist attitude of mind, and…
I believe in the unity of Africa.
Sometimes Europeans talk as if we should be ashamed of our own heritage. We are not.
People often ask me what it’s like to live with bodyguards. The short answer is that it’s better than being…
Africans need to adopt this cultural motto: Dare to think. Dare to doubt. Dare to question everything in spite of what…