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Africa  Quotes
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.A...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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You’ve got to give product away in Africa. There’s a natural arbitrage where the prices get pressure around the world.

—Barbara Ryan

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Africa
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If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It...

—Daoud Hari

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AfricaInspirationalWriting
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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

—Ethan Zuckerman

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AfricaMobilePhones
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Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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AfricaSpirit
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Oh God, not another fucking beautiful day.

—James Fox

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AfricaBritishEnnui
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They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a...

—Junot Díaz

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AfricaAntillesCurse
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La littérature est un thé tre à ciel ouvert qui permet de transformer les êtres les plus simples en héros universels, loin des parterres présomptueux.Conrad, Le Voyageur de l’inquiétude

—Olivier Weber

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Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

—Nana Awere

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AfricaDevelopment
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Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is infested with an aggressive strain of such invisible germs.

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

—Jomo Kenyatta

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Les pelles ne sont pas élégantes, certes, mais elles ont tout de même réussi a libérer des communautés entières du paludisme durant les 5 000 derniers ans.

—T.K. Naliaka

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We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo,...

—Robert G.

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Mais voici qu’aujourd’hui nous avons éprouvé la soif. Et ce puits que nous connaissons, nous découvrons, aujourd’hui seulement, qu’il rayonne sure l’étendue. Une femme invisible peut enchanter ainsi toute une maison. Un puits porte loin,...

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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AfricaCaptiveDamsel
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You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

—Alexandra Fuller

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I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You’re my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love...

—Graham Greene

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AfricaLovePassion
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La conscience morale de l’humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement…

—Cheikh Anta

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People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage – or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagine. I think that is one way to be not afraid: in a covered...

—Claire Robertson

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AfricaColonialismGreat-Trek
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By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter

—Gossy Ukanwoke

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AfricaEducationLearning
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We must act now to prevent further spread of EBOLA VIRUS. If we do not act collectively, EBOLA VIRUS will wipe all whole populations and generations into their grave. The call to action is now.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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AfricaAfrica-LeadersAfricans
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As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.

—Nadifa Mohamed

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AfricaBlack-WomenHistorical-Fiction
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Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference

—Niq Mhlongo

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Being a hangman requires you to take someone else’s life based on someone else’s judgment, and carry it out on someone else’s schedule. The job does not provide the same satisfaction that an ordinary murderer...

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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Africa’s informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without...

—Richard Attias

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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

—Wangari Maathai

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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

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AfricaLeft
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I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.

—Abeba Habtu

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AfricaDaughterEritrea
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Her task seemed ridiculous, the result of a momentary weakness, of believing in the impossible, that stories have a trajectory where we find things out, resolve things to our satisfaction and come out the other...

—Anne M. Chappel

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AfricaMemoriesZanzibar
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Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean...

—Christopher Hitchens

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AbolitionAfricaAmerican-Imperialism
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The solutions to Africa’s problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

—George Ayittey

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AfricaLieProblems
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Sometimes, you’ll watch the news and you’ll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing ‘Spider-Man’ t-shirts. It’s such a global phenomenon.

—James Vanderbilt

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AfricaBoyWatch
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In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

—Fela Durotoye

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AfricaGrothInspirational
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Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt...

—Mark Gevisser

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To Nine’s way of thinking, the problems surrounding the exploitation of coltan in the DRC epitomized the problems the entire African continent faced in capitalizing on the huge untapped wealth that lay beneath its surface....

—Lance Morcan

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AfricaColtanCongo
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Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

—Nana Awere

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But when did this anger take root? When snakes first appeared on the national scene? When water in the bowels of the earth turned bitter? Or when he visited America and failed to land an...

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AburĩriaAfricaAutocrat
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I will not mince words. There’s been enough mincing for one day. Therefore, I shall ask my question bluntly: How does a man know that his body has been turned inside out? … His eyes...

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

—Ryszard Kapuściński

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AfricaCulturalSteretoypes
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

—Tahir Shah

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The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us.

—Akilnathan Logeswaran

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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers,...

—Alan Paton

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Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

—Daoud Hari

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AfricaConflict-ResolutionDarfur
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I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. At age 30, I felt...

—Jacqueline L.

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AfricaLoveTravel
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You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa.

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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AfricaImmigrantName
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Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.

—Georges Bidault

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Africa
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One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul’s first instinct was to laugh him off as a simpleminded fool. But the legend...

—Monte Reel

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AfricaExplorationHistory
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I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to...

—Nana Awere

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AfricaGhana
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I tell you, Professor, growing up is a full contact sport. Somewhere in our brains, foolishness and naïveté join forces with a false sense of invincibility. Together, they score own-goals against their host’s interests. All...

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city

—Thabo Katlholo

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AfricaBotswanaCity
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