With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think… — John Dramani Mahama Copy Share Image
“Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report… — Njovana Watts Copy Share Image
Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people… — Zeresenay Alemseged Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Africa and Africans has succeeded in destroying our culture and traditional by accepting the effect of colonialism on the strong foundation that… — Leopard Akande Copy Share Image
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“I tell you, Professor, growing up is a full contact sport. Somewhere in our brains, foolishness and naïveté join forces with a… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz,… — Paul H Blaney Copy Share Image
Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good… — Riaad Moosa Copy Share Image
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“Every nation on the face of the earth has citizens who are endowed with great potentials. There is no nation in the… — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
China's rapid inroads into Africa are made possible by a combination of Chinese money and a willingness by Beijing to deal with… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“As the sun began to rise, the man reached out to the woman, and they clasped hands. He cradled her, and languidly… — Hannah Fielding Copy Share Image
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Because it is located so far south, and the coastal plain quickly rises into high land, South Africa is one of the… — Tim Marshall Copy Share Image
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The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
A woman at age 28 is like AFRICA. Feels much cheated and disappointed. All the resources have been badly mismanaged and there… — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township,… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
“In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
“The only dream come true I relish with a vengeance is whistling like a man. I was told a woman fit to… — Lucy Michot Copy Share Image
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“This is Africa, my friends … These folks do things differently.” Sven Taxel, who regards himself as an expert on South Africa… — Harry Kalmer Copy Share Image
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