Africa Quote by Mo Ibrahim

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

— T. B. Joshua

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

— George Ayittey

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

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

— James Shikwati

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

“What's happened here, Sayid? There never used to be such begging." "You are right," he said. "I believe they have learned this thing from…

— Barack Obama

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

— Benjamin Kofi Quansah

Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving…

— Madonna Ciccone

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Africa is on the rise.

— Bill Gates

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

— Nas

There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine…

— Uzodinma Iweala