Aggressive Quote by Jon Stewart

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

— Mo Ibrahim

Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give.…

— Walter E. Williams

I think everybody knows that Africa is in a very deep crisis. There is economic misery and social deprivation and that Africa needs help…

— George W. Bush

Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that…

— Mo Ibrahim

We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or…

— Zeresenay Alemseged

One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve…

— Wangari Maathai

The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will…

— Robert Sobukwe

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is…

— Michael Ignatieff

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand…

— Susan Rice

I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and we may…

— Chinua Achebe

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

— George Ayittey

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided…

— Kwame Nkrumah