"It's important to debunk the myths of Africa……" — Henry Louis Gates

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• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
• People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly… — David Attenborough
• I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
• On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
• I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these… — Harry Belafonte
• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single… — Mary McLeod Bethune
• In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more… — Steven Biko
• Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.… — Art Blakey
• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we… — Bono

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