African continent Quote by Kwame Nkrumah

“Europeans never had the remotest intention of raising Africans to the Western level, of sharing with them the instruments of physical, political or economic…

— James Baldwin

“For four hundred years the white man had added continent to continent in his imperial progress, equipped with resistless sea-power and armed with a…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do,” said Valmorain. “Just as whites are enslaving each…

— Isabel Allende

In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it…

— Jared Diamond

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

— Desmond Tutu

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

— Jacob Zuma

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad…

— Chinua Achebe

“Africa would have been the greatest continent, if it wasn’t for greedy people. Thieves who masquerade themselves as politicians. They all find their moral…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

“When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of…

— Ryszard Kapuściński