Africa Quotes · Page 10

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I bet in Africa they play commercials of American stripper girls starving for their father's attention.

— Green Monk

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

— Bill Gates

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

— Miriam Makeba

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

— Helen Fielding

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

— Shirley Temple

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.

— Richard E. Grant

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great…

— Steven Biko

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity…

— Harry Belafonte

“There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't…

— Alexander McCall Smith

As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm"…

— Will Bowen

Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated,…

— Maisie Williams

Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing…

— Chris Abani

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how…

— Richard Attias

“I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretching…

— Peter Godwin

Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors;…

— Jonathan Miles

“A problem with us South Africans is our lack of integrity and patriotism. Some of us will do anything for money, even…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us…

— Nicky Oppenheimer

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

— Dale Steyn

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

— George C. Kimble

“Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

I am interested in bringing Africa to the foot of the Cross.

— Reinhard Bonnke

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

— Kenneth Kaunda

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

— Mem Fox

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

— Jane Goodall

“Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

— Rem Koolhaas

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

— Naomi Klein

I wanted to prove that a young boy coming from Africa was able to succeed and achieve a lot.

— Samuel Eto'o

The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.

— Kwame Nkrumah

“There is no other continent in the world where time is wasted like it is wasted in Africa.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.”

— Nike Thaddeus

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

— Trevor Huddleston

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

— Claudia Winkleman