Africa Quotes · Page 14

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

— Yahya Jammeh

“Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

“The Africans wouldn’t consider it a real visit unless they ate.”

— LeAnne Hardy

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

— Jon Ronson

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

— Yemi Osinbajo

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

— Malachi Kirby

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

— Jacob Zuma

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I…

— V. S. Naipaul

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

— Dave Matthews

“I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or…

— William Pitt the Younger

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

— Tahir Shah

“... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in.…

— Mo Ibrahim

“It is an aspect of Kenya I am always acutely aware of - and crave, because I don't have it all. My…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places…

— Gabrielle Reece

“Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean…

— Patrick Mendis

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for…

— Paulo Freire

The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got…

— Lester Holt

“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a…

— Tim Jeal

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my…

— Louise Leakey

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response…

— Nick Turse

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

— Mary Kingsley

“If we do not fix education in Africa, we are heading for monumental economic disaster.”

— Mmanti Umoh

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

— Richard Pryor

“Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.”

— Deanna Raybourn

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

— Dennis Brown

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

— Bruce Davison

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

— Malcolm X

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

— Didier Drogba

I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.

— Yolandi Visser

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

— Nwankwo Kanu

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

— Dervla Murphy

Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram's violence.

— Richard Grenell

The trails in South Africa are completely different to Europe: dusty and loose surface.

— Nino Schurter

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.

— Steve Lukather

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.

— Michael Sata