Africa Quote by J.M. Coetzee

“He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Of course South Africa is not perfect. We have extreme social issues and many scars left over from the past. But what happened here…

— Lili Radloff

“Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to…

— Doris Lessing

“he wrote a trenchant warning of the “far-reaching consequences over the wider destiny, not only of South Africa, but of all Negro Africa” that…

— Adam Hochschild

“If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political…

— Zakes Mda

“Don’t let anyone tell you that Apartheid has nothing to do with South Africa now. Those roots run deep and tangled and we’ll be…

— Lauren Beukes

“Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts.”

— Ilana Mercer

“The Oxford dons had accomplished the impossible. They made Africa boring.”

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.”

— Stuart Hall

“Throughout all the years that I lived in South Africa, people were to call me a fool for refusing to live life the way…

— Mark Mathabane

“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”

— Wilkie Collins

“That one is not confronted with the choices de Kock could have or could not have made, that one was not a member of…

— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela