Country Quote by Thabo Mbeki

We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

— Thabo Mbeki

What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on the Continent…

— Thabo Mbeki

I must say that, in the first instance, we got the request from many African countries who said, look, you people had better host…

— Thabo Mbeki

We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli relations mushroom.

— Hailemariam Desalegn

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an…

— Omar Bongo

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

— Helen Fielding

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

— Omar Bongo

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to…

— Miriam Makeba

For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests…

— Wangari Maathai

A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other…

— Thabo Mbeki

Africa for Africans

— Asavela I Plaatjie

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties.…

— Bono