She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian…

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this…

— Yvette Clarke

I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it…

— Cory Hardrict

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

— Samantha Power

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria…

— Uzo Aduba

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm…

— Kola Boof

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

— Nigel Dennis

'Yo I'm from Africa' Boy you're just a faker. Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!' Wrong! And I think that's a shame, An African look…

— King Sun

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

— Liz Mitchell

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to…

— Lykke Li

Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African…

— Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology…

— Barbara Kingsolver

African Queen' is pretty darn great.

— Robert Eggers

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of…

— David Quammen