"Most countries in Africa have the capacity to……" — Nicolas Berggruen
"Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond."
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21 Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen
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The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second…
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Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not…
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Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to…
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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a…
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In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of…
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building.…
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California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side,…
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At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is…
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Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
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Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth…
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California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People…
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If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them,…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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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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