We have to find the origin of the problem. The origin of the problem in many African countries is that you've got… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica;… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. — K'naan Copy Share Image
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The matted straw cover of the latrine was yanked away. The sun blinded me as I looked up at the dark outline… — Nick Hahn Copy Share Image
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will definitely die and be forever… — Alexandra Fulller Copy Share Image
“the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in… — Alice Krige Copy Share Image
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In South Africa there are many women with a large chest. There you are not embarrassed when you visit a lingerie store… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released.… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
“placed my feet on African soil for the first time. For many years, I had wanted to travel to the continent, and… — Nathan Cole Copy Share Image
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February second. After fifteen days on the water and six on… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this… — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting… — Simphiwe Dana Copy Share Image
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the… — Makuochukwu Okigbo Copy Share Image
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
