Africa Quotes · Page 10

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

— Lawrence Summers

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

— Mo Ibrahim

I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.

— Prince Harry

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

— Dale Steyn

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

— Shirley Temple

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

— Miriam Makeba

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and…

— Djimon Hounsou

“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Africa is the one place on earth where Prince Harry can be truly himself. He describes Botswana as his 'second home,' but…

— Penny Junor

“We have bestowed on Africa just enough of the disposable junk of the modern world to create in African cities a junkyard…

— Paul Theroux

“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy,…

— Bill Gates

Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated,…

— Maisie Williams

“People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm"…

— Will Bowen

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors;…

— Jonathan Miles

“I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretching…

— Peter Godwin

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how…

— Richard Attias

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of…

— Pete Hoekstra

But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

— Helen Fielding

“Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

— Naomi Klein

Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

— Rem Koolhaas

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

— Jane Goodall

I am interested in bringing Africa to the foot of the Cross.

— Reinhard Bonnke

“Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

— Kenneth Kaunda

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

— Mem Fox

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

— George C. Kimble

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

— Samuel Eto'o

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

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

— Kimbal Musk

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

— Steve Lukather