Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 8
8 official and the public know that during this fifty- year period we did not involve ourselves in your politics and had no axes to grind and did not even cast an avaricious glance in the direction of your wealth. You know well that whatever we made we ploughed back in your countries, and what you had not earned but others had earned in another country, we brought here and invested in your service. ' This line had its appeal. I had a similar experience in Kano. One medical centre has been operating there for the last few years. It had accumulated a balance of over 15000 sterling in savings. This sum was invested during the last two years in the construction of the hospital building which was only a clinic before. In fact, some debt has been incurred which, Allah willing, will be liquidated within a year or two. This beautiful hospital building has cost about 20,000 sterling. In short we did not net even so much as a penny from these lands. But those who had gone before us with a message of love bled the land dry. Visit to Nigeria Nigeria was the first country I visited. One day I was deep in thought turning over in mind their circumstances. I observed to an