"I wanted to be a great white hunter,……" — Wilbur Smith

"I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books."

— Wilbur Smith

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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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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these… — Harry Belafonte
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single… — Mary McLeod Bethune
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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