Century Quote by Louis Leakey

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa,…

— Richard Leakey

The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

— Jacob Zuma

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

— P. W. Botha

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did -…

— David Harewood

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's…

— Harry Oppenheimer

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the…

— John Henrik Clarke

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the…

— Louis Leakey

South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived…

— Jann Klose

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

— Li Keqiang

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

— David Cameron

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis.…

— Louise Leakey