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
If a man is judged by his acts, then I would say that the most urgent thing today for the African intellectual is the building of his nationFranz Fanon
What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may beFranz Fanon
