A. H. NGIDI

Our race very often patterns after another race, impersonates its achievements, assumes a resemblance to everything that ennobles and dignifies and becomes influenced by a use of power acting from without, though the motives may be regarded as forces acting upon the will. But this is not the field which we must seek to cultivate. We must explore, initiate, create and exhibit an ability for original conception and independent action. We must biase our own way, and produce forces and agencies that make and stimulate civilization and thus prove to mankind that if left to ourselves we could evolve a condition of organization and enlightenment that would demonstrate the interest, intrinsic, initiative attributes of the race.

- A.H.M. Ngidi, "Our Greatest Fault", Ilanga lase Natal, September 1, 1922.