I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.
Michael Palin
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My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
Caterina Murino
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
MS Dhoni
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All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
Mo Ibrahim
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
Daniel Espinosa
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Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Lin Biao
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It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.
SuccessGreatAfricaWouldRoute
I was always a tomboy growing up in Africa.
Behati Prinsloo
Growing UpGrowingAfricaAlwaysUp
Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
Kent Brantly
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Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
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Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.
Yemi Osinbajo
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I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.
Kevin Pietersen
MindThinkAfricaNeverPlaying
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.
FriendGreatAfricaStartingUp
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in East Africa, and you had the Neanderthal in Europe, Homo Erectus in part of Asia, and so forth.
Yuval Noah Harari
YouAfricaAncestorsEuropeLived
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away.
Justin Cartwright
ThoughtTrueAfricaMoreInterest
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.
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I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control.
Wangechi Mutu
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My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. They wanted an Aussie who had been in North Africa with the English, and found my father on the Pasadena police force.
Jamey Sheridan
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South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
Louis Leakey
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Africa has no future.
V. S. Naipaul
FutureAfricaNo Future
In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.
Hugh Masekela
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You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.
Joyce Banda
WomenMeFeelYouAfricaFirst
Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
Samora Machel
VictoryNewAfricaBringPlanned
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.
Henry Louis Gates
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