Dad Quote by Kamasi Washington

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

— Malachi Kirby

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

— Albert Schweitzer

I am part of the pan-African diaspora.

— Rachel Dolezal

My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was…

— SZA

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been…

— Donald Johanson

My dad's entire business and enterprises have been about helping the African-American community.

— EJ Johnson

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

— Yvonne Orji

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

— Dayo Okeniyi

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and…

— Giles Foden