Africa Quote by Mo Ibrahim

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

— Mo Ibrahim

Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.

— Frans van Houten

We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or…

— Zeresenay Alemseged

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much…

— Kumi Naidoo

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

“The more Africa depends on aid the less opportunities it creates for its people”

— Benjamin Kofi Quansah

Africa is the future.

— Youssou N'Dour

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?

— Sanjaya Baru

You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and…

— Bill Gates

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

— Wangari Maathai

So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled…

— Jon Stewart

The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will…

— Robert Sobukwe