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The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers … those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

— Jomo Kenyatta

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Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.]]

For the extinction of a kinship groups means cutting off the ancestral spirits from visiting the earth, because there is no one left to communicate with them.

Facing Mount Kenya (1938)

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Communism is as bad as imperialism.

The Gikuyu lost most of their lands through their magnanimity, for the Gikuyu country was never wholly conquered by force of arms, but the people were put under the ruthless domination of European imperialism through the insidious trickery of hypocritical treaties.

Facing Mount Kenya (1938)

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