You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African…

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel…

— Dinaw Mengestu

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

— Bob Geldof

In Africa men are treated differently there. Here is like theres really no difference between a man and a woman besides sex.

— Akon

An American thing! In Africa, women dont do that. In Africa men are treated differently there. Here is like theres really no difference between…

— Akon

Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.

— A'Lelia Bundles

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily.…

— Gabourey Sidibe

I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the…

— Lynn Nottage

I want to see women of African descent shine.

— Danai Gurira

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

— Danai Gurira

“Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to…

— Doris Lessing

I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart…

— Oliver Tambo

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

— Zola Budd

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest…

— Taiye Selasi

“Curious thing that the younger men of today were glib enough when they talked of ideals and how everyone must progress in a changing…

— Daphne du Maurier

Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as…

— Sharlene05