Africa Development Quotes

#1. Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

Nana Awere Damoah

#2. Don't under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don't think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

Nana Awere Damoah

#3. I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

Harry Oppenheimer

#4. 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.

Mo Ibrahim

#5. Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

Omar Bongo

#6. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

James Shikwati

#8. The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.

Ned Sublette

#9. Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency.

Nana Awere Damoah

#10. Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.

James Shikwati

#11. 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

#12. I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#13. This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Donald Evans

#14. I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Donald Evans

#15. It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

Nana Awere Damoah

#16. The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

Ousmane Sembene

#17. Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

John Prendergast

#18. Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

Richard Attias

#19. That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#20. Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#21. In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

Jesse Jackson

#22. An enlightened and empowered generation is the key to our development in Nigeria and indeed in Africa

Fela Durotoye

#23. What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy ... it doesn't work.

Mo Ibrahim

#24. There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare, is on the move. ('Emerging Africa', 2010)

Steven Radelet

#25. In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Paul Kagame

#26. One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

Harri Holkeri

#27. Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave ...

Thomas Sankara

#28. Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

Haile Selassie

#29. Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

Ban Ki-moon

#30. A stable and prosperous DRC is the victory of the World. Congo is a deciding factor for Africa's development whether we like it or not.

Ahmed Padia Binkatabana

#31. In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

James Shikwati

#32. We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

Nelson Mandela

#33. Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

Nana Awere Damoah