Africa Quotes · Page 17

Nowhere outside of Southeast Asia is China's rise as a global power more visible than in Africa.

— Robert C. O'Brien

In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

— Thabo Mbeki

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

— Ory Okolloh

I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

“Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

— Akon

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

— Masai Ujiri

“No river in sub-Saharan Africa reaches from the open sea to deep into the interior.”

— Thomas Sowell

We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli…

— Hailemariam Desalegn

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's…

— Athol Fugard

“The trouble with parents is they remember the things you don’t want them to remember. Then the things you want them to…

— Kate Iffy Chukwu

When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to…

— Michael Landes

“Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Principled leadership that embraces the fundamental need to aid in the successful development of a society, consequently cultivates a path of greatness…

— Wayne Chirisa

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social…

— Djimon Hounsou

No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.

— Tom Tancredo

Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing…

— Chris Abani

Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the…

— Tariq Ramadan

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you get off to an African country like Malawi - which is pretty removed from everything and pretty seriously off the…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever…

— Katharine Hepburn

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of…

— Malcolm X

“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed…

— Doris Lessing

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is…

— Idris Elba

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The more Africa depends on aid the less opportunities it creates for its people”

— Benjamin Kofi Quansah

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

— Andrew Mitchell

Most of my career has been spent overseas in Africa or in Europe.

— Bruce Wilkinson

I've got Africa stamped on my chest, and I've outlined Nigeria because that's my bloodline.

— Israel Adesanya

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

— Elvis Mitchell

“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.”

— Eva Žilková

We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.

— Fernando Meirelles

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

— Sam Richardson

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

— Kofi Annan

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

— Richard Grant

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

— Gail Kelly

“You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew.”

— Jonathan Tropper

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

— Marie Phillips

Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

— Liya Kebede