Achievement Quote by Henry Louis Gates

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

“Decolonising the Mind, by an important African writer and revolutionary, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.”

— Chinua Achebe

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

It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage…

— Alexandra Fuller

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

— Djimon Hounsou

The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is…

— Fela Kuti

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

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

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

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

— Roger Zelazny