Cannot Quote by Fela Kuti

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original'…

— Sister Souljah

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

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

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am…

— Jon Weisman

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

— Paul Robeson

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

— J. M. Coetzee

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

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into…

— Frantz Fanon

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o