Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
Arundhati Roy
PeopleThinkYouIndiaAfricaOver
The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
Abdullah Ibrahim
PeopleProblemAfricaMindsTimeline
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
John Hanning Speke
TrustTravelSorryTryingAfrica
I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
Wilbur Smith
LoveSeaAfricaMuchI Love
The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.
Wole Soyinka
TimeGovernmentWorldMissionAfrica
When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.
Aamir Khan
MeCareImportantAfricaChina
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
Mem Fox
MotherWomanDoorSnakeBackAfrica
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II.
Tedros Adhanom
WarWorldViolenceNowAfricaSee
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
William Kamkwamba
PowerWaterLongEarthAfricaClean
Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
Damon Galgut
FuturePeoplePowerfulWhiteAfrica
People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.
Robert Lopez
DailyPeopleThinkAfricaTryOut
When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.
Raoul Peck
FatherDayThoughtAfricaFirstSee
I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.
Sydney Brenner
MedicalSchoolFindAfricaTryUp
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
Ed Royce
StrongCountryAnchorWillAfrica
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
Jeffrey Sachs
PovertyCrisisAfricaEssence
Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
LeadershipWomenFoodSmallAfrica
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
Peter Abrahams
FreedomLongCountryAfricaRacial
There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.
John Singleton
NameYouKnowAfricaSystemGuy
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
PeaceDreamAfricaI DreamWhich
The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.
Paul Theroux
TravelMeRoadYouTrainAfrica
Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
Ama Ata Aidoo
LifeDreamsPeopleFindAfricaHere
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey
WorldFreeKnowAfricaWhereWhole
Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.
Serge Lang
AfricaUpRecallTestsShowMalaria
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
Steven Biko
KnowRelationshipsAfricaHumanSame
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