Africa Quote by James D. Watson

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

— Angelique Kidjo

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

— Jill Scott

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more…

— Bono

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

“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

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original'…

— Sister Souljah

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

— James Shikwati

there are many Africas.

— Beryl Markham

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that…

— Don Cheadle

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being…

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.

— James Shikwati

“For ages anthropologists lumped all African peoples into one ‘race,’ but the genetic truth is that the larger world’s diversity is more or less…

— Sam Kean