The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State, blows that attracted the notice and attention of colonial dissidents in Asia and Africa.
Linda Colley
WarFreeAttentionCreationAfrica
Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.
Mo Ibrahim
RestPeacefulCountryAfricaBeen
In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
Ziggy Marley
SufferingAfricaYearsPolioKids
Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.
Kent Brantly
PeopleYouAfricaWestPrayCannot
The way forward for Africa is investment.
ForwardInvestmentAfricaWay
I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
Yolandi Visser
HomeBackGoAfricaSouth Africa
Leaving South Africa was very difficult.
Kevin Pietersen
LeavingAfricaDifficultSouth Africa
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
HomeFoodWorldGrowingAfricaLand
In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but also the domestic policies of governments across the world, from South Africa to Indonesia.
Yuval Noah Harari
WorldStoryAfricaPolicyLiberal
I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.
Julian Robertson
AfricaInvestingWouldYoungerWere
I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.
BestUncomfortableBreadNowAfrica
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar
PoliticsMeDemocracyDoingAfrica
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
James Luceno
YearEgyptAfricaThroughEthiopia
I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.
Louis Oosthuizen
GolfEnjoyGardenAfricaUpRoute
In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
Uzodinma Iweala
HealthMedicineAfricaPublic Health
I want to see Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking hand-in-hand with Winnie Mandela.
Hugh Masekela
WalkingDownWantAfricaHimSee
I would love to do a film in Africa.
Judi Shekoni
LoveAfricaFilmWould
I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.
Samuel Eto'o
I CanAfricaTryWellRepresent
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
Henry Louis Gates
PeopleBlackMoviesAfricaBecause
The South's cuisine is often likened to gumbo - a thick and bubbling melange, spiked with a little bit of this, a little bit of that - yet the metaphor, like the dish, comes from West Africa.
Jonathan Miles
AfricaLittleWestLikeCuisine
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
Taiye Selasi
SummerGoAfricaFirstWestMust
Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
Henning Mankell
DayWorldEndPlaceGoAfrica
The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
Dinaw Mengestu
DecisionPoliticsAfricaWriteFirst
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke
BelieveBorderAfricaOnlyBegins
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