“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Mr. Gweta looked ten years younger than Professor Khupe had expected. His jet-black hair was trimmed so neatly that it would make… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark… — Christoffel Wiese Copy Share Image
Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
“Look again at the standard Mercator map and you see that Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, and yet… — Tim Marshall Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“Westerners arriving in Africa for the first time are always struck by its beauty and size--even the sky seems higher. And they… — Richard Dowden Copy Share Image
We are blessed to grow up in a country that is the world's leader. We are blessed to be some of the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe.… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
“The plant and animal kingdoms (excluding humans) offered some pleasant surprises. Organisms from these realms are much simpler to figure out. Their… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the one world are unbearable to the… — karen blixen Copy Share Image
Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our… — Aliko Dangote Copy Share Image
We know that the African regimes, many African regimes have failed their people and many Africans want regime change, and there are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
“Here, the mother country is satisfied to keep some feudal rulers in her pay; there, dividing and ruling she has created a… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not… — Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the… — Patrice Lumumba Copy Share Image
Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
“As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image