Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way.… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day.… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be… — Rebecca Enonchong Copy Share Image
“Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing… — Euvin Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
“The coffin was handmade from the wood of a single Eucalyptus tree. There were no handles, it rested on the shoulders of… — Nick Hahn Copy Share Image
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Africa is a very special place, the people are very special there. There is a lot of love, and a lot warmth… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
“equatorial Africa? Could it have arrived there in one soaring leap, leaving no traces in between? From southwestern Sudan to Manila is… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Connecticut, and I went into the Peace Corps right after college. I went… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa,… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare,… — Steven Radelet Copy Share Image
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“Set your mind back to africa, Don't try to go by what they do wherever you are in abroad, Don't turn into… — Leopard Akande Copy Share Image
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be… — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I look at South Africa and look around Europe and ask: are those places better to be black than the U.K.? I… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
