As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.
Jacob Zuma
PeopleCountryCitizenAfricaHonest
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
Richard Leakey
PlaceSayAfricaWestPassHappened
Africa's not a color - it's a place.
Trevor Noah
ColorPlaceAfrica
Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
LateRulesSecurityGoNavyAfrica
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
Noam Chomsky
HopeStoryNowAfricaDevelopment
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There was literally a church on every corner.
Roger Ross Williams
MusicChurchAfricaConservativeHow
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
George Ayittey
BackCrisisWillAfricaNextSit
It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.
Nicky Oppenheimer
FuturePeopleAfricaResourcesOnly
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
Rose George
PeopleSufferingAfricaHospital
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
ElectionAfricaHimOwnWhereObama
The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
Richard Attias
GrowthBackAfricaPoorFarmers
There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.
Russell Freedman
WorldAfricaEvidenceFarChinese
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
Hasso Plattner
MeBrainNightThoughtAfricaYears
Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.
Richard Corliss
WorldRestThinkAfricaContinent
Namibia took my breath away - we were at the border with South Africa, and it was where they filmed 'Mad Max.'
Michael Landes
BorderMadAfricaBreathWhereAway
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
Ahmed Ben Bella
PathWorldAfricaMilitaryTwoWere
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark Zuckerberg
PeopleHouseSquirrelNowAfrica
Roads are not practical in Africa.
Mo Ibrahim
RoadsAfricaPractical
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
WorkRisksAgricultureKnowAfrica
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
Lewis Tappan
PromisesCountryAfricaWithoutWell
A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.
DrivePoliticalInvestmentAfrica
If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
Ziggy Marley
BestTogetherProblemsWillAfrica
I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.
Leila Lopes
WorldPovertyWantAfricaMoreShow
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.
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