Africans Quote by Henry Louis Gates

“This unfortunate position of the African Continent and its peoples appears to be the result of misrepresentation upon which the structure of race prejudice…

— George G.M. James

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

— Charles de Secondat

“The moment that the topic of the pre-European African past is raised, many individuals are concerned for various reasons to know about the existence…

— Walter Rodney

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do…

— John Henrik Clarke

“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

“Europeans never had the remotest intention of raising Africans to the Western level, of sharing with them the instruments of physical, political or economic…

— James Baldwin

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white;…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People…

— Hendri Coetzee

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they…

— Hugh Masekela

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad…

— Chinua Achebe

“We have bestowed on Africa just enough of the disposable junk of the modern world to create in African cities a junkyard replica of…

— Paul Theroux