Africa Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

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

— Djimon Hounsou

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,…

— Chris Abani

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

— Paul Kagame

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part…

— Lynn Nottage

My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of…

— Henry Louis Gates

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

— Amiri Baraka

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

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United…

— John Hope Franklin

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from…

— Kola Boof

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes…

— Anonymous