Africa Quotes · Page 20

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

— Richard Grant

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

— Gail Kelly

“You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew.”

— Jonathan Tropper

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

— Marie Phillips

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

— Liya Kebede

Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

Most of my career has been spent overseas in Africa or in Europe.

— Bruce Wilkinson

I've got Africa stamped on my chest, and I've outlined Nigeria because that's my bloodline.

— Israel Adesanya

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a…

— Mo Ibrahim

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do…

— Katherine Applegate

In South Africa, we've been watching these movies all our lives - 'Batman,' 'Superman,' 'Captain America' - and every time the mask…

— John Kani

“A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything…

— Paul Oxton

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently…

— Martin Puryear

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we…

— Jane Goodall

I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For…

— John Banville

I'm nervous about everything I do with Africa. You almost want it to go good all the time, and you don't want…

— Masai Ujiri

“(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the…

— Jared Diamond

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for…

— Paulo Freire

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got…

— Lester Holt

“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a…

— Tim Jeal

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response…

— Nick Turse

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my…

— Louise Leakey

“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.”

— Eva Žilková

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

— Elvis Mitchell

We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.

— Fernando Meirelles

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

— Sam Richardson

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

— Kofi Annan

African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

— Arancha Gonzalez

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power - or the lack of power.

— Aliko Dangote

“It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The main cause of food security in Africa is war and conflict.

— Amber Rudd

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

— George Ayittey

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've travelled a lot so I've been to South Africa before and it's beautiful.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

— Mo Ibrahim

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

— Mo Ibrahim