Top 100 Africa's Quotes
#1. Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.
Richard Attias
#2. AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.
James Shikwati
#3. I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.
Paul Robeson
#4. Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
Mo Ibrahim
#5. The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.
Neil Turok
#6. As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Pankaj Mishra
#7. 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
#8. By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
Evan Osnos
#9. Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
George Ayittey
#10. Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Haile Selassie
#11. If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.
Nelson Mandela
#12. South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
Susan Rice
#13. Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
Paul Kagame
#14. We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
Marcus Garvey
#15. Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela
#16. The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
George Ayittey
#17. South Africa's subprime crisis OP-ED
Anonymous
#18. Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
Oliver Tambo
#19. How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#20. I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
Athol Fugard
#21. 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
#22. Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.
Thomas Sankara
#23. "In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
Michael Jackson
#24. If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.
Richard Attias
#25. Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.
Richard Attias
#26. Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.
Richard Attias
#27. Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#28. With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.
Don Yaeger
#29. Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#30. The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#31. All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
Evo Morales
#32. In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.
Hugh Masekela
#33. Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
George Ayittey
#34. We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.
Meles Zenawi
#35. 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
#36. Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#37. I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.
Kola Boof
#38. After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.
Aliko Dangote
#39. The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
Jeffrey Sachs
#40. Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
Aliko Dangote
#42. If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.
Marcus Garvey
#43. Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
Paul Theroux
#44. South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty ... and the fact that the region is a haven for Africa's most splendid wildlife ... Then I think that we have been blessed with a truly wonderful land.
Nelson Mandela
#45. There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.
George Ayittey
#46. Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment.
Kwame Nkrumah
#47. 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
#48. For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.
David Jeremiah Barron
#50. Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.
Jacob Zuma
#51. There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
Tony Blair
#52. 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.
Mo Ibrahim
#53. Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
Dennis Prager
#54. What is South Africa's sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?
Jeremy Riddle
#55. 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
#56. If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.
Craig S. Keener
#57. What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.
Nick Turse
#58. White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
Joni Mitchell
#59. S'tjwetla is a black man's striptease.
Toba Beta
#60. Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.
Dinesh D'Souza
#61. There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.
Joe Biden
#62. I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.
Corinne Hofmann
#63. Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.
T.K. Naliaka
#64. [Mark] Epprecht's larger thesis [...] is that Europeans introduced homophobia, not homosexuality, to Africa.
Chantal Zabus
#65. Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.
Jimmy Wales
#66. Father's always saying that South Africa must be one of the best countries in the world for surviving a zombie apocalypse,' Megan says seriously. 'It's full of security estates and high fences.
Lily Herne
#67. When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
Henry Rollins
#68. I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.
Kevin Pietersen
#69. Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.
John Lennon
#70. There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.
Ridley Scott
#71. I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.
Kris Allen
#72. What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.
Francois Hollande
#73. Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.
S.A. David
#74. You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.
Scarlett Johansson
#75. Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.
John Dramani Mahama
#76. 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.
Mo Ibrahim
#77. The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
Larry Kramer
#78. Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.
Scarlett Johansson
#79. The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
James Fenton
#80. It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.
David Bullard
#81. People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals ... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
Miriam Makeba
#82. It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.
Spencer Wells
#83. One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.
Scarlett Pomers
#84. Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.
Will Self
#85. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
Wilbur Smith
#86. Homestead" term was first used in USA in the Homestead Act in 1862 and before. In Saharan Africa, especially in nations which were controlled by the British, a homestead is the single extended family's household compound.
Carrie Arboony
#87. Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.
Talib Kweli
#89. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
Christoffel Wiese
#90. Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.
Damon Albarn
#91. Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
Nathan Wolfe
#92. People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
Dikembe Mutombo
#93. I'm not sure what's more worrying. The list of demands or the fact he seems unaware the French stopped using francs in the last century and that Africa is a continent?" - Jerome
Jamie Scallion
#94. There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.
Komla Dumor
#95. One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
Stephen Lewis
#96. Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
Wilbur Smith
#97. George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.
Hillary Clinton
#98. We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.
Irene Cara
#99. 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
#100. Africa is God's country, and He can have it.
Groucho Marx
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