Africa Quotes · Page 12

Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.

— Nwankwo Kanu

“Nothing creates a bond between people in Africa more quickly than shaed laughter".”

— Ryszard Kapuściński

We have a big heart for Africa and also for just raising awareness about the water crisis.

— Chyler Leigh

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

— Lee H. Hamilton

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

— Cyril Ramaphosa

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

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

— Lawrence Summers

It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work…

— F. W. de Klerk

I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.

— Ernie Els

In Africa, there is much confusion… Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication… Now, in Africa ... the government…

— Youssou N'Dour

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now…

— Noam Chomsky

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty.…

— Jill Scott

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames…

— Liya Kebede

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I…

— Anonymous

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

— Ben Okri

“Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a…

— Walter Rodney

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of…

— Chinua Achebe

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of…

— Jodi Picoult

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white…

— Doris Lessing

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there…

— Chinua Achebe

“Usiwe na wasiwasi, Peter. Hizo ni hisia zangu tu. Huwezi kuwa mpelelezi. Lakini, kusema ule ukweli, ningependa sana kuonana na John Murphy.…

— Enock Maregesi

One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we…

— Wangari Maathai

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I bet in Africa they play commercials of American stripper girls starving for their father's attention.

— Green Monk

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

— Bill Gates

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

— Fela Kuti

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

— Bobby Fischer

I got recognized on the subway in South Africa because of 'Big Bang.'

— John Ross Bowie

One thing's for sure - Africa needs to have its best teams at the World Cup.

— Marcel Desailly

“Never complete. Never whole. White skin and an African soul.”

— Michelle Frost

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

— Mo Ibrahim

It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.

— India.Arie

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

— Omar Bongo

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

— George Ayittey

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

— Malcolm X

“I said it before and I shall say it again: Coming to Africa was a bad idea!”

— Randall Allen Dunn

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

— Paris Hilton