West Africa Quotes
24 West Africa quotes by 21 unique authors
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa…
— Ed Royce
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Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer…
— Ibn Khaldun
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was…
— Alex Haley
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[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still…
— William Kristol
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Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire…
— Hugo Weaving
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The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West…
— William Schaffner
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We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this…
— William Schaffner
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Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better…
— William Schaffner
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Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are…
— Paul Farmer
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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from…
— Jared Diamond
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to…
— Louis Leakey
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Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world
— Kofi Annan
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My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute…
— Frantz Fanon
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named…
— Taiye Selasi
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Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe,
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they…
— Mike Harding
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I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
— Paris Hilton
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I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise…
— David Attenborough
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of…
— Aaron Klein
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Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects…
— Susan Rice
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Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
— Edward Ball
Who Wrote These West Africa Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 West Africa Quotes as follows: