African Development Quotes

#1. There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Paul Theroux

#2. The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.

Mo Ibrahim

#3. When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Sheryl WuDunn

#4. If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this.

Paul Watson

#5. China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs and therefore has to say: in our own interest, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of development of the African continent.

Thabo Mbeki

#6. Young African American men were the only group to experience a steep increases in joblessness between 1980 and 2000, a development directly traceable to the increase in the penal population. During

Michelle Alexander

#7. 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

#8. We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

African Spir

#9. There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

Noel DeJesus

#10. I hate beyond hate.

John Fowles

#11. Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

Caroline Myss

#12. I do criticise the narrative that excludes women and continually put men in the forefront.

Malebo Sephodi

#13. Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Bernard Baruch

#14. 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

#15. The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

Omar Bongo

#16. I fear we may live to see another revolution.

John Marshall