Jomo Kenyatta

“We do not want to keep the country in a state of poverty and backwardness. We want to make it a modern state.”

“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.”

“When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”