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
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
The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
When we talked about going to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry how many doctors in Cuba raised their hands to… — Alejandro Castro Espin 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
“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
“The solution to the economic and political failure of nations today is to transform their extractive institutions toward inclusive ones. The vicious… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
“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
My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda. — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“If you live in Sierra Leone or Afghanistan it is highly likely that you have lost a relative or friend this way.… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to… — Ishmael Beah 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
From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Our household in southeastern Sierra Leone, West Africa, was not typical. First, my parents married for love and my father refused to… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“I kind of was beginning to feel like I was being underutilized [as Teen Ambassador to the UN]. I mean, there were… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
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