Accepting Quote by William Kamkwamba

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the…

— Imtiaz Ali

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

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even…

— Joyce Banda

What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked…

— Joyce Banda

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and…

— Giles Foden

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there…

— Madonna Ciccone

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been…

— Donald Johanson

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house…

— Hugo Chavez

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

— Ben Okri

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

— Sonny Perdue

My father grew up quite poor actually in a small farming village in South India. His grandfather was a farmer, his father was a…

— Vivek Murthy