Africa Quotes · Page 18

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

The main cause of food security in Africa is war and conflict.

— Amber Rudd

“It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power - or the lack of power.

— Aliko Dangote

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

— George Ayittey

African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

— Arancha Gonzalez

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

— Jesse Jackson

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.”

— Tai Solarin

“It is not enough to say, simply, the motherland called and we fought; woe to the dead, and to the living goes…

— A.H. Septimius

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…

— Giles Foden

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not…

— Francois Hollande

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

— Richard Attias

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

— Pratibha Patil

“Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“A problem with us South Africans is our lack of integrity and patriotism. Some of us will do anything for money, even…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us…

— Nicky Oppenheimer

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

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a…

— David Quammen

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its…

— Frank Crowninshield

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under…

— Dikembe Mutombo

Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.

— Sunil Bharti Mittal

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

— Bob Geldof

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

— Helen Suzman

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

— Sanaa Lathan

For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've travelled a lot so I've been to South Africa before and it's beautiful.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

— Mo Ibrahim

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

— Mo Ibrahim

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

— Damian Marley

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

— Gerald Horne

Why don't you click your heels three times and go back to Africa.

— Dave Chappelle

“You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges. Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent.”

— J.D. Robb

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

— Susan Rice

“You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.”

— Gerald Freeman

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana