"The best way to help Africans today is……" — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
"The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs."
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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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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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Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know…
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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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More Africans Quotes
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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…
— Bono
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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…
— John Henrik Clarke
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a…
— Unknown Author
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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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