An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment…

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had…

— Mitta Xinindlu

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

— Marcus Garvey

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

— Paul Theroux

“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

— Thabo Mbeki

Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white…

— Noam Chomsky

Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but…

— Goapele

“It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil…

— John Prendergast

Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they…

— Lamin Sanneh

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life.…

— Paul Theroux

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You…

— Desmond Tutu

“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in…

— Thomas Sowell

“In the U.S., “Instead of feeling guilty for having too much fun, one is inclined to feel ashamed of if one does not have…

— Alemayehu Mekonnen