The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're… — Valerie Owens Copy Share Image
“People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm"… — Will Bowen Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There is not a single country in the world that is not interested in doing business with China. And no one is… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
“Most people come to Africa to see large or outlandish animals in the wild, while some others — “the new gang —… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is… — Shintaro Ishihara Copy Share Image
“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“Africa Day is a special occasion to celebrate being African, to recognize the continent’s history, and to look forward to its future.… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
“The real problem with us Africans is our inability to recognize the saviors among us Being confident is often confused with proudness… — Peter Ojo Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
“Whether Egypt or Greece is the source of modern civilization, their religion is not something one desires. As oppressed and enslaved people,… — Alemayehu Mekonnen Copy Share Image
“I still worry about Africa, we are slaves to western and Eastern Brands and we do not cherish and love our own.… — Tare Munzara Copy Share Image
“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
I want my work at Google to have a long-term impact on the tech scene in Africa and to result in millions… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
“resisting Africans were nearly always cast as violent criminals, not people reacting to enslavers’ regular brutality, or pressing for the most basic… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Christ then will be seen as fully African and black, fully one of them and on their side. It is this Christ… — Robert J. Schreiter Copy Share Image
While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since… — Ory Okolloh 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
I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them"… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and… — Paul Theroux 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
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn't have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came… — Dereck Chisora Copy Share Image
“They are among the three hundred million Africans who earn less than a dollar a day, and who are often pushed out… — Daoud Hari 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
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
We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
