“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.” — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed.… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share
You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
“They speak as if it was some how beneficial to an African to work for them instead for himself and to make sure that… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.” — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
