Book Quote by Bob Geldof

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest…

— Taiye Selasi

“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…

— Beryl Markham

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

— Robert Sobukwe

“Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to…

— Doris Lessing

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

— Ben Okri

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

— George Ayittey

“In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history. Fernand Braudel”

— Thomas Sowell

“A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is…

— Chinua Achebe

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who…

— Kerry James Marshall

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

— Alan Paton