It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

Mr. Gweta looked ten years younger than Professor Khupe had expected. His jet-black hair was trimmed so neatly that it would make a manicured golf course look scruffy. His face was exceptionally smooth, giving the...

Mr. Oppenheimer played a seminal role in the industrialization of South Africa over a period spanning most of the 20th century, … Through his work, he bequeathed to our country not only an industrial empire...

Wife number one always married with the naïve romantic dream that her husband would never need another wife, believing his earnest promises to her that she would be the only one, that their marriage was...

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its...

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

Au moyen ge… L’introduction du trivium est attestée: S’DI, un noir lettré de Tombouctou, auteur du célèbre ouvrage intitulé le ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cite parmi les matières qu’il avait maitrisées, la logique, la dialectique, la grammaire,...

He found out in South Africa that he could get to the next level, … He keeps chipping away at that next level, and, you know, I would be very, very surprised if he doesn’t...

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. This way, people can’t see you with the thing to be...

The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the one world are unbearable to the other. To the African there is but one way of counter-balancing the catastrophes...

Well, you know, that was the worst of it – this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled...

Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects...

The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence...

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it’s poorly made.

America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to...

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn’t because that’s who I was.

I have had my mother’s wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way...

Virtually all of Africa’s civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a ball of fire radiating the sky with unnaturally incandescent hues. Coral was reminded of the strident brushwork and wild colours of the Fauvist paintings...

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power

Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman’s journey north was merely the beginning.

Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

There is a distressing but not uncommon condition of presidents and other world leaders known as Worrying about Africa. It is usually picked up overseas as at summit meeting on world poverty or disease, and...

… the successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the garden-variety killers who applied so far have had no chance of success, especially...

He was enraged and bitter and hoped for a personal meeting with Sarkozy where he would recount to him France’s colonial history in Africa and make him see reasons why her policy of assimilation was...

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in...

In Africa… age is not important over there. They don’t care.

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

This is an iconic project for Africa

Obwohl diese afrikanischen Militärbanden oft nicht größer oder mächtiger sind als die organisierten kriminellen Banden in Asien oder Osteuropa, wird über ihre Aktivitäten in den Medien – sogar in den westlichen Medien – unter der...

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. “I have kola,” he announced when he sat...

The Americans were constantly hectoring Africans about their behavior and values—protecting oneself against AIDS, limited family size, sleeping under mosquito nets. Chinese messages… focused on big, tangible things that fairly shouted: This stadium, this hospital,...

When traveling in rural Africa, it’s important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their...

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they look like they’ve been roaming the roads of Guinea since...

You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.

(On WWI:)A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and, because of this shooting, whole countries were at war. It seemed a laborious method...

the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits – love was an...

Global capital is agnostic – it has no loyalties. There’s an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup. What Africa is providing is a diversification play and also opportunities for...

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This...

been subjected to one of the most brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing that Africa has ever seen.