Africa is poor because she is not free.

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot…

— Emily Oster

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

— Naomi Klein

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

— Claire Denis

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them…

— Albert Camus

Facebook brings the Internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of…

— Peter Sunde

“Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted

— Omali Yeshitela

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

— Sitting Bull

To be poor without being free is the worst state into which man can fall.

— Vikrant Parsai

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be…

— Sophocles

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

— George Ayittey

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human…

— Noam Chomsky

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

— S. Azmat Hassan

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

— Michael Essien

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming.…

— Jennifer Hudson