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Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase…

— Femi Kuti

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent…

— Wole Soyinka

Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a…

— Paul Kagame

Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

— Nelson Mandela

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties.…

— Bono

It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and…

— Raila Odinga

I must say that, in the first instance, we got the request from many African countries who said, look, you people had better host…

— Thabo Mbeki

When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things…

— Richard Engel

“Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

— V. S. Naipaul

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in…

— Thomas Sankara