“If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with,… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Africa would have been the greatest continent, if it wasn’t for greedy people. Thieves who masquerade themselves as politicians. They all find… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township,… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
A woman at age 28 is like AFRICA. Feels much cheated and disappointed. All the resources have been badly mismanaged and there… — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
“In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“This is Africa, my friends … These folks do things differently.” Sven Taxel, who regards himself as an expert on South Africa… — Harry Kalmer Copy Share Image
“The only dream come true I relish with a vengeance is whistling like a man. I was told a woman fit to… — Lucy Michot Copy Share Image
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
China's rapid inroads into Africa are made possible by a combination of Chinese money and a willingness by Beijing to deal with… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“As the sun began to rise, the man reached out to the woman, and they clasped hands. He cradled her, and languidly… — Hannah Fielding Copy Share Image
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Because it is located so far south, and the coastal plain quickly rises into high land, South Africa is one of the… — Tim Marshall Copy Share Image
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To Nine’s way of thinking, the problems surrounding the exploitation of coltan in the DRC epitomized the problems the entire African continent… — Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“We keep on saying Africa is cursed, because we are suffering , but Africa is not cursed . Africa is blessed with… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction.… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“As he was about to press the button to shut the doors, a young woman stepped in. She had that sort of… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks… — Bono Copy Share Image
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and… — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
“When I looked through old pictures of my family, I always thought that the reason why they looked dusty was because of… — Lunga Noélia Izata Copy Share Image
I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
“It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Africans in my generation, and especially those of us who have spent time overseas before coming back,… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
“... the successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
