“When I looked through old pictures of my family, I always thought that the reason why they looked dusty was because of… — Lunga Noélia Izata Copy Share Image
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and… — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
“It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Africans in my generation, and especially those of us who have spent time overseas before coming back,… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
“... the successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To Nine’s way of thinking, the problems surrounding the exploitation of coltan in the DRC epitomized the problems the entire African continent… — Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“We keep on saying Africa is cursed, because we are suffering , but Africa is not cursed . Africa is blessed with… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction.… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“As he was about to press the button to shut the doors, a young woman stepped in. She had that sort of… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks… — Bono Copy Share Image
“If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
When you hear a lot of stories about Africa, and you get to a place like Kenya and other countries like that,… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
“The key trait of a Sperm Pirate is that she is not driven by desperation. Escaping poverty or hardship is not her… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“This epic is a humble appeal to this great continent, Africa: May we reclaim our rich and resplendent narrative; our foundation, our… — N.K . Read Copy Share Image
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
“If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters… — J. Nozipo Maraire Copy Share Image
“We all come from somewhere. Born, aborted, extradited, fugitive or even enslaved. But much of what we are, belongs to Mother Africa.… — JBAlves Copy Share Image
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society,… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
“Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
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