"Because I am an African, I am a…" — Ama Ata Aidoo

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• The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
• To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can… — David Attenborough
• Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure… — Joyce Banda
• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look… — Dave Barry
• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
• I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell… — Glenn Beck
• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. — Larry Bird
• From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to… — Mary J. Blige
• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we… — Bono
• I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I… — Bono
• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal… — Bono
• The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you… — Bono

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