Africa Quotes · Page 13

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

— Angelique Kidjo

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

— John Rhys-Davies

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

— Martha Beck

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

— Barack Obama

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

— Damian Marley

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

— Nancy Gibbs

When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.

— Joel Parkinson

I think a lot of great players in Africa started with bare feet.

— Victor Wanyama

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more…

— Damon Albarn

“I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a…

— B.G. Bowers

Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and…

— Li Keqiang

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can…

— James D. Watson

Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really…

— Paul Theroux

“In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when…

— Mmanti Umoh

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let…

— Marcus Garvey

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me…

— Ethan Zuckerman

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or…

— Djimon Hounsou

Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its…

— Frank Crowninshield

My parents were the only people to go to South Africa from Australia in a single engine plane... the two of them,…

— Maye Musk

“I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff…

— Jacqueline L. Scott

I always say in my camps in Africa, in everything we do, 'My name is Masai and I'm from Nigeria.' My name…

— Masai Ujiri

“The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of…

— Charles Herbert Best

Access to capital is one of biggest challenges for businesses in Africa.

— Oscar N. Onyema

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.

— Valerie June

“An estimated one out of every five Africans is a Nigerian.”

— Thomas Sowell

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

— Richard Corliss

“Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?”

— Anonymous Bushman

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

— Mo Ibrahim

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

— Doris Lessing

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

— Tim Minchin

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Why do I need to leave Africa for America, yet my mom got garden tools too!

— RufeteOmar

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

— Melinda Gates

Everything that the West is today is predominantly because of Africa.

— Nneka

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

— James A. Baldwin

We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

— Kwame Nkrumah

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

— Countee Cullen

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

— Fatou Bensouda