“Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent,… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life,… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls. — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“She felt there was no difference between her and the sacrificial hen with a rag tied to its neck.” — Lucy Michot Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
