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“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not… — Michela Wrong Copy Share Image
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I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the… — Lynn Nottage 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
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball… — Dikembe Mutombo 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
“The collapse of the state in this large swathe of Africa meant that its people either relied on the charity of outsiders… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
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There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments… — Alex Morrison Copy Share Image
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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
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my… — Dikembe Mutombo 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
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township,… — Tsholofelo Lehaha 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
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