The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
— Harold MacMillan
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
— Theodor Herzl
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
— Kwame Nkrumah