Africa Quotes · Page 10

We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?

— Steve Lukather

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

— Kimbal Musk

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.

— Torrey DeVitto

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

I wanted to prove that a young boy coming from Africa was able to succeed and achieve a lot.

— Samuel Eto'o

The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.

— Kwame Nkrumah

Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.

— Wangechi Mutu

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

— Paul Kagame

Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both,…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she…

— Matt Roper

Imagine thousands and thousands of years ago, when the human race was born in Africa, if we'd not allowed them to get…

— Manu Chao

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,…

— Cynthia Ozick

“In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve…

— Malebo Sephodi

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First…

— Rory Carroll

“I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned…

— Nadine Gordimer

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember…

— Jane Goodall

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a ball of fire radiating the sky with unnaturally incandescent hues. Coral…

— Hannah Fielding

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

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

“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

Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and…

— Julius Nyerere

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

“Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.

— Oti Mabuse

Some day, I'm going to get married, and I'll want to tell my children I was in Africa on a safari.

— Grace Kelly

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

— Mo Ibrahim

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

— Thabo Mbeki

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

— Hugh Masekela

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings.

— Ernie Els

“We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city”

— Thabo Katlholo

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

— Barry Finlay

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the…

— David Livingstone

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed...

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

— Yoweri Museveni

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

— Nina Simone

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

— Mo Ibrahim

“By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter”

— Gossy Ukanwoke