Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and… — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his… — Jamie Sives Copy Share Image
What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning… — Boyd Norton Copy Share Image
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I… — Burna Boy Copy Share Image
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa,… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
I grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Connecticut, and I went into the Peace Corps right after college. I went… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing… — Euvin Naidoo Copy Share Image
“Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be… — Rebecca Enonchong Copy Share Image
“When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare,… — Steven Radelet Copy Share Image
I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
