We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able… — Dikembe Mutombo 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
“the idea of independence and self-government in Africa was voiced by almost no one, except for a few beleaguered rebels deep in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If I'd had a magic ejector seat when I went to Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
“Many of us imagine carrying out dramatic changes in impoverished places, but few have the patience for the small, time-consuming, and seemingly… — Deni Y. Bechard Copy Share Image
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit… — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
My background is very much tropical rainforests. We did a lot in the earlier series in places like the Amazon and the… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Hochschild’s sweet reason in his letter on the complex question of European colonialism appears to have abandoned him while writing the book… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Comparing the EIC to the Nazis is grotesque. Hochschild has nothing to say about this odious rhetorical maneuver, an insult not just… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image