Assault Quote by Oliver Tambo

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

— Zola Budd

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I…

— Gregg Wallace

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

— Kofi Annan

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel…

— Dinaw Mengestu

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest…

— Taiye Selasi

“Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to…

— Doris Lessing

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

— Bob Geldof

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following…

— Wangari Maathai

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured…

— John Henrik Clarke

There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I feel so British, but people would look at me and see a very African woman - the way I cook is very Nigerian,…

— Wunmi Mosaku