About Quote by Chris Abani

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

— Djimon Hounsou

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and…

— Giles Foden

Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the…

— Chinua Achebe

While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one…

— Ory Okolloh

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

— Paul Kagame

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

— Angelique Kidjo

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

— Wilbur Smith

I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the…

— Lynn Nottage

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the…

— John Henrik Clarke

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

— 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