A Few Words From Félix Houphouët-Boigny ...

"On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,' was probably more in force in America -- that holy of holies of capitalism -- than in any other country in the world.."

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first president of Côte d'Ivoire, as quoted in Kathryn and Ross Petras' Whole World Book of Quotations, Perseus Books 1994.

"To those who speak of a Pan-African union, I ask, 'What are we supposed to share? Each other's poverty?'"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, as quoted by David Lamb, in his book The Africans, The Bodley Head, London, 1982.