“Vaida planted her shoulders into the back of her chair and slid her lower body towards the edge of the seat. The… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
“The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko 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
Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa. — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or… — Tom Cain Copy Share Image
Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none of these things? Why was… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of… — Mike Bond Copy Share Image
Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon. — James Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“African virtues are not framed by unsubstantiated perceptions, but by the fundamental principles defined by each nations blueprint that signifies what the… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
