Country Quote by Louise Mushikiwabo

While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one…

— Ory Okolloh

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

— Mo Ibrahim

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

— Kenneth Kaunda

99.9% of the information you get about Africa is wrong

— Fela Kuti

My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot of other…

— Sebastian Junger

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers…

— Matthew Modine

Everything that the West is today is predominantly because of Africa.

— Nneka

People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer…

— Robert Lopez

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they…

— Djimon Hounsou

I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their…

— Yoweri Museveni

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

— Mo Ibrahim