The ideal way to reform backward customs in Africa must, surely, be to undermine their foundations in superstition by fostering in the people – at all events, in the new generation of educated Africans – the spirit of rational enquiry…Kwasi Wiredu
To develop in any serious sense, we in Africa must break with our old uncritical habits of thought; that is to say, we must advance past the stage of traditional thinkingKwasi Wiredu
It is true that African nations spend every year huge sums of money on institutional education. But it has not been appreciated that education ought to lead to the cultivation of a rational outlook on the world…Kwasi Wiredu
We are living in a transitional epoch in which our actions and habits of mind are governed, frequently unconsciously, by inherited traditional conceptions in combination with ideas and attitudes coming to us from foreign landsKwasi Wiredu
Nothing is apparently more difficult than to change habits of thought hardened for us into customs by the long-standing practice of our forefathersKwasi Wiredu
Traditional society was founded on a community of shared beliefs in the wisdom of age, the sanctity of chieftaincy and the binding force of customs and usages of our ancestorsKwasi Wiredu
We have been creating throughout Kenya a family or community spirit that in Swahili is called ‘Ujamaa’. And the ultimate ideal would be to extend this ‘Ujamaa’ to all humanity…Jomo Kenyatta
The most essential need which I have constantly sought to proclaim and to fulfil in Kenya has been that of national unity…Jomo Kenyatta
