"Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the……" — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
"Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform."
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17 Quotes by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has 17 quotes on this site.
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The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they…
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When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
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The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best…
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Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side…
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I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,
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Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
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[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it…
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I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to…
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Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do…
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very…
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Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So…
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If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of…
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most…
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans…
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a…
— Jeremy Cronin
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time…
— Brad Pitt
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for…
— Thomas Sowell
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity…
— James Madison
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