Accurate Quote by Henning Mankell

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

— John Kani

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

— John Kani

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness…

— Ben Okri

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them.…

— Ishmael Beah

There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have recognized Elizabethan…

— Gregory Doran

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

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 are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…

— Beryl Markham

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

— Dakin Matthews

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

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

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the…

— Gregory Doran