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Africa  Quotes
The case of Mr Habre constitutes a symbol of impunity in Africa.

—Boucounta Diallo

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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had – a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they’d sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn’t...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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AfricaHappinessPoverty
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With the World Cup coming to the continent of Africa for the first time, 2010 presents a unique opportunity to eradicate the shocking legacy of shack housing,

—Chris Eubank

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

—George Ayittey

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AfricaCameFree
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Youths are the life blood of any nation.

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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AfricaBritish-High-CommisionDemocracy
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With Africa, we’re talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can’t quite get it together to sing a song. On that day he just seemed like an odd image

—Damon Albarn

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There is beauty and power in unity.We must be united in heart and mind.One world, one people.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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AfricaGovernanceGovernment
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I was scripting for a series on the Arts programme which was shown very late on a Sunday evening, and I was sent off to get the low down on several up and coming musicians...

—Lucinda E.

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AfricaMemoirRadio
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Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with...

—Nana Awere

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AfricaDevelopmentIdeas
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…. does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaHangmanMystrey
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Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser’s padlock.

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaHangmanMystrey
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Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

—T.K. Naliaka

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AfricaFoodKnowledge
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I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

—William Pitt

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AfricaAfrican-LiteratureSlavery
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Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories…

—Amilcar Cabral

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AfricaAfrican-LeadersTruth
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In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly – in art and literature.

—Abdourahman A. Waberi

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I always return from Africa energized and rejuvenated. ‘¦ Largely because of the African voices — the wisdom in those voices — [I’m] energized and invigorated!

—Chris Johns

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I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to...

—Ishmael Beah

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AfricaChildFamily
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Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, pursue and achieve, love and...

—Chloe Thurlow

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AfricaConcubineHarem
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You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

—Gerald Freeman

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The coffin was handmade from the wood of a single Eucalyptus tree. There were no handles, it rested on the shoulders of six elegant tribesmen. These were Maasai from Kenya, the warrior tribe, known for...

—Nick Hahn

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There is no excuse for you guys. We believe that you are the best in and out of Africa.

—Khaya Ngqula

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There is always something new out of Africa.

—Pliny Elder

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AfricaRoman Author
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The plant and animal kingdoms (excluding humans) offered some pleasant surprises. Organisms from these realms are much simpler to figure out. Their behaviours are not muddied by personality factors or flawed belief systems. If an...

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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the deficiency of the negro race is not as a result of the deluge number of bad leaders;rather, its is an outcome of the shortage of young negro intellect ready to lead a revolutionary africa.

—victor adeagbo

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Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He’s so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.

—T.K. Naliaka

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This will mean a tripling of investment in Russia and a doubling of investment in South Africa, and will continue over the next two years to gain the critical mass necessary for supplying customer needs.

—Wenceslao Lada

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The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.

—Chantal Zabus

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AfricaHomosexualityQueer
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove...

—Beryl Markham

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AfricaColonial-SocietyDiscrimination
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One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

—Frantz Fanon

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AfricaFanonFreedom
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Last year I built a Courage Machine, but I thought it might be noisy and was too afraid to turn it on. So I coated it with glue, covered it with cat hair, mounted it...

—Jarod Kintz

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AfraidAfricaCat-Hair
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I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I’m just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it’s going to be my friend.

—Dianna Agron

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Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.

—Kiru Taye

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AfricaReading
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The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don’t keep doing it, the jungle will grow over...

—Katharine Hepburn

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[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less “African” than actual Africans that calling ourselves ‘African American’ is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born...

—John McWhorter

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AfricaAfrican-AmericansAmerica
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The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.

—John Oxford

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Vaida planted her shoulders into the back of her chair and slid her lower body towards the edge of the seat. The fabric of her retracting skirt increased the protrusion of her legs. When she...

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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From the beginning, Europe assumed the power to make decisions within the international trading system. An excellent illustration of that is the fact that the so-called international law which governed the conduct of nations on...

—Walter Rodney

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AfricaEuropeHistory
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The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: ‘The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people...

—Tahir Shah

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AfricaAmericaGeography
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Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our...

—Boyd Norton

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AfricaHumanityKnowledge
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No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

—David Bennun

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AfricaBoyhoodFamilies
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Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

—George Ayittey

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AfricaDemocracyPossible
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Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow...

—Henryk Sienkiewicz

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AfricaDeathDeath-And-Dying
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As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered such statements an absolute joke. Africa did not, nor did it ever have,...

—James Morcan

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AfricaAfrica's-WealthCorruption
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On dit premier gaou n’est pas gaou, c’est deuxième gaou…

—Magic System

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AfricaAfriquePopular-Culture
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The youth. The youth of Africa. The youth of this world. Are we harnessing the potential of the youth enough? Are the young ones… giving off their best to the continent, the nation, the universe...

—Nana Awere

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AfricaDevelopmentGhana
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Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that stoked the fires of destiny. Such an exalted ambition was worthy...

—Taona Dumisani

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AfricaFlame-LilyGreat-Zimbabwe
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When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most reliable protection against...

—T.K. Naliaka

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