African Quote by Yahya Jammeh

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

— George Ayittey

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

— Desmond Tutu

There is no intrinsic reason African countries should be importing, rather than exporting, basic staples like rice or higher value products like frozen chicken,…

— Arancha Gonzalez

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed…

— Jane Goodall

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for…

— Ezra Stiles

“While in England the profits of the slave trade helped to enrich those who opposed absolutism, in Africa they helped to create and strengthen…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about…

— Motsoko Pheko

“From the flourishing trade center of Zanzibar, whose leading trade items were ivory and African slaves, the Arabs began to conquer parts of coastal…

— Thomas Sowell

“Because it is located so far south, and the coastal plain quickly rises into high land, South Africa is one of the very few…

— Tim Marshall

“BRIEF HISTORY OF TRADE BETWEEN AFRICA AND EUROPE Hereditary slavery had been around since the times of Greece and Rome and was nothing new.…

— Eduardo Galeano

“….So much crueller than any British colony, they say, so much more brutal towards the local Africans, so much more manipulative after begrudgingly granting…

— Tim Butcher

“Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.”

— Thomas Sowell