Democracy Quote by Yuri Orlov

“When describing why the African National Congress took the fateful decision to give up on nonviolence and take up arms, Mandela writes that they…

— Nelson Mandela

“No matter what African people did, they were barbaric beasts or brutalized like beasts. If they did not clamor for freedom, then their obedience…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent…

— Wole Soyinka

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is…

— Michael Ignatieff

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be…

— Kwame Nkrumah

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those…

— Nelson Mandela

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much…

— Tony Blair

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

— George Ayittey

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

— Robert Sobukwe

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't…

— Jill Scott

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka…

— Wilbur Smith