I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
I use a 1994 South African 5 rand coin to mark my ball. It reminds me of my '94 U.S. Open win… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live. — Abdoulaye Wade Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott 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
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
“In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all… — Adam J. Banks Copy Share Image
“The most powerful ancestral or generational curse we face is our unhealed trauma.” — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
“Girl-children do not reproduce their own name. They bring forth offspring for strangers. They receive, carry and bring forth other people's seeds.… — Lucy Michot Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image