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Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

— Elspeth Huxley

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

— Elspeth Huxley

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

— Helen Fielding

Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate…

— Djimon Hounsou

I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn't have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came back on…

— Dereck Chisora

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but…

— Gary Frank

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the…

— Kwame Nkrumah

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world,…

— Nelson Mandela

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

How can I turn from Africa and live?

— Derek Walcott