'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson later said that there should be a “consilience” between art and science. 79 Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to prove people wrong, and that's what drives me. I've been like that since Sierra Leone, when everyone said,… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
“The pattern of vicious circle depicted by the transition between Haile Selassie and Mengistu, or between the British colonial governors of Sierra… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know,… — Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Copy Share Image
No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise… — Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Copy Share Image
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“Flotsam Some people figuratively, although sometimes literately, washed up on the barren beaches of West Africa because they were unwelcome in most… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“….So much crueller than any British colony, they say, so much more brutal towards the local Africans, so much more manipulative after… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“A diamond may be forever, but terrorism, promiscuously funded, will be too. Let's make the connection clearly by tracing the path of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Cynthia was originally from Sierra Leone, and I loved the way those two dusky words rolled off her tongue. As we drove… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
“Israel is one of the most multiracial and multicultural countries in the world. More than a hundred different countries are represented in… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
