Africa Quote by Mo Ibrahim Download Open image “It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.” — Mo Ibrahim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Africa Always Instead Listening Our People Started Telling Them Time Young Young people
In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet. — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa. — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves… — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working… — Tom Lister, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my 'other' family in Africa, my other mother and… — Henry Selick Copy Share
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image