Adventure Quote by Leslie Cockburn

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

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter,…

— Henning Mankell

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life.…

— Michelle Obama

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

— Djimon Hounsou

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house…

— Wilbur Smith

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years,…

— Robert McCloskey

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of…

— Werner Bischof

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream…

— Jane Goodall

As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And…

— Forest Whitaker