What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?

The doctor in Murare is old – old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to....

Kiswahili ni lugha ya Kibantu na lugha kuu ya kimataifa ya biashara ya Afrika ya Mashariki ambayo; maneno yake mengi yamepokewa kutoka katika lugha za Kiarabu, Kireno, Kiingereza, Kihindi, Kijerumani na Kifaransa, kutoka kwa wakoloni...

Humanity’s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely…

It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

I have seen the TV reports on the horrendous drought in East Africa and I know how desperate things have become, so I am happy to be able to do something to help.

Africans must change their mind and actions.The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

I also have travelled in Africa, so there are about seven or eight stories about Africa. I’ve also been to China, so there are five or six stories about China, and some about Mexico. I...

Further north, I met a Siberian hermit who lived in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. His life’s passion was wrestling black bears … in the nude (him not the bears). He did not know...

Improving Africa’s farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Africa is the future.

I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I...

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace...

Africa’s salvation doesn’t lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

As the sun began to rise, the man reached out to the woman, and they clasped hands. He cradled her, and languidly they lifted themselves up to their feet, their bodies brushing, their eyes lost...

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement’s scripture.

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down...

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe’s development.

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

… the only difference between carnivores and plants is that the latter eat meat through ‘translator’ organisms. Maggots and bacteria ‘pre-chew’ dead animal matter, which plants then absorb as nutrients. So if eating pre-chewed food...

When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of the system’s defeat and demise. […] The central subject, the essence,...

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual ant but in the collective ant mind. The trail of red taillights stretching...

Have you a room that you could let?””Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. I have only two rooms, and there are six of us...

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s’ genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda’s total population, had been killed.

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible...

Americans made beautiful, principled speeches and imposed countless conditions on all manner of things. But in the end, in Africa they seemed to move the ball very slowly. They regarded Africa not as a terrain...

He couldn’t drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn’t wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to rebut their savagery: these were the nicest man-eating barbarians a lonely wanderer could...

Terrorism will never cease in a country where the so-called leaders are criminals and terrorists in disguise.

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their...

Despite his elegant appearance, Mr. Gweta’s most striking asset was his alluring personality. Professor Khupe had met few such men in his life. Their warmth made everyone feel like they were their best friend. They...

I am the Mud Hut I Grew Upon

It’s a lot like the Wild West out here… just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

We’re really happy with two wins from three in South Africa.

When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out...

No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence – that children will definitely die and be forever lost as a result of the conflict; that the war will not end...

Kiswahili ni lugha rasmi ya nchi za Tanzania, Kenya na Uganda. Ni lugha isiyo rasmi ya nchi za Rwanda, Burundi, Msumbiji na Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo. Lugha ya Kiswahili ni mali ya nchi za...

By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: S’DI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar,...

Fielding cannot be improved by engaging coaches. Australia and South Africa are excellent fielding sides without any fielding coaches.

As a citizen of this country, I’ve got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

…drought conditions throughout the Greater Horn of Africa are likely to continue in most of the areas between February until at least the beginning of April.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

The Determination Gene”.

Africa’s agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent’s economy and its people.