Africa Quotes · Page 16

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

“No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process”

— Fela Durotoye

I do sometimes like cheesy music like 'Africa' by Toto; naff songs and music.

— Konnie Huq

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

— Will Smith

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME

— Lou Ferrigno

We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to…

— Yemi Osinbajo

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the…

— Donald Johanson

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have…

— John Dramani Mahama

I didn't really think I would ever make it out of Africa. I dreamt about it, but I didn't think it would…

— Michaela DePrince

Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving…

— Tony Elumelu

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had…

— Nadifa Mohamed

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in…

— Dominic Monaghan

“Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses”

— Fela Durotoye

“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with…

— Nadifa Mohamed

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in…

— Noam Chomsky

I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and…

— Damon Albarn

Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and…

— Julius Nyerere

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and…

— Richard Leakey

Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no…

— Ron Dellums

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what…

— Thabo Mbeki

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

— Elspeth Huxley

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

— Hailemariam Desalegn

I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.

— Ernest Hemingway

From all corners of the earth I pick your love like the african setlite dish

— Anonymous

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

— Euvin Naidoo

“... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

A player from Africa who wins championships? That's powerful.

— Masai Ujiri

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

— Scarlett Pomers

We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.

— Strive Masiyiwa

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

— Djimon Hounsou

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Unity without a conquering spirit yeilds  failure; only those who posses a conquering  spirit will prevail.”

— Wayne Chirisa

It's an honour to be an Ambassador for DStv. Their passion for promoting sports is unrivalled across Africa.

— Alex Iwobi

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

— Zora Neale Hurston