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Africa Quotes

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

College Me Know Egypt Africa Matter

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

Tree Hate Yourself Roots You Africa

I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.

Cutter Hodierne

Life Work Go Know Africa Missing

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.

Better Seriously Africa Middle

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Birthday Political Africa Concert

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Back Africa Human Rights Turned

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

People Conflict Energy Africa Out

By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

World End Connections Will Africa

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Struggle Reality Africa Never Expect

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Childhood Feeling Africa Idea Like

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Today Problem Situation Now Africa

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

Hailemariam Desalegn

Island Africa Within Stability Horn

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

War Poverty Place News Africa See

As far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned, we need to reconsider the question of reliability and stability of hydrocarbons.

Africa Question Need Middle Far

Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.

Arancha Gonzalez

World Thrive Focused Places Africa

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Abdullah Ibrahim

People Say True Africa People Say

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Challenges Financial Africa Overcome

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

Truth Truth Is Nobody Africa Oil

The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power - or the lack of power.

Power Africa One Thing Number Thing

I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

Me Traveled Africa Most Hopeful

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Andrew Mitchell

People India Three Africa Poor More

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

The Notorious B.I.G.

Think Africa South Africa South

To build more human economies in Africa, governments must be far more strategic, wise, and forward-looking in their expenditure and build diverse economies that are going to deliver the jobs for the next generation.

Winnie Byanyima

Wise Generation Build Africa Human

We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

People Voice Lose Africa More Clear

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