Julius Nyerere's Defense of African Independence and Decolonization

If you come into my house and steal my jacket, don’t then ask me whether I am ready for my jacket. The jacket was mine, you had no right at all to take it from me … I may not look as smart in it as you look in it, but it’s mine.

With a simple analogy, Nyerere swept aside the argument that decolonisation was happening too quickly.

the language that Nyerere championed at home was Swahili.