I've been making my way through Chinua Achebe's The Education of a British-Protected Child, and stumbled upon this gem:
In 1976, U.S. relations with Nigeria reached an all-time low in the face of a particularly clumsy American handling of the Angolan-Cuba-South African issue. Henry Kissinger, whose indifference to Africa bordered on cynicism, decided at last to meet Joseph Garba, the Nigerian foreign minister, at the United Nations. In a gambit of condescending pleasantness, Kissinger asked Garba what he thought America was doing wrong in Africa. To which Garba replied stonily: "Everything!" Kissinger's next comment was both precious and, I regret to admit, true. He said: "Statistically that is impossible. Even if it is unintentional, we must be doing something right."