Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
‐‐ Ama Ata Aidoo
Africa is on the rise.
‐‐ Bill Gates
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
‐‐ Naomi Klein
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.
‐‐ Paul Theroux
Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.
‐‐ Richard Corliss
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett
Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact - coming back to the land mass - Africa is so big that you could fit in the continental United States, China, and the entire Europe into Africa and still have space.
‐‐ Euvin Naidoo
Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself to grow at the same time.
‐‐ Ivan Glasenberg
Africa needs access to markets.
‐‐ Jakaya Kikwete
Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo
Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.
‐‐ Richard Attias
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
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
‐‐ Haile Selassie
Africa's not a color - it's a place.
‐‐ Trevor Noah
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
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
Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
‐‐ Haile Selassie
Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
‐‐ Jacob Zuma
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.
‐‐ Jill Scott
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
‐‐ Henning Mankell
Africa will thrive.
‐‐ Bono
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
‐‐ Chaka Fattah
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
‐‐ Don Lemon
African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
‐‐ Elijah Cummings
African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
‐‐ Lynn Nottage
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.
‐‐ Tracie Thoms
African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
‐‐ Malcolm-Jamal Warner
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates
African-Americans are underrepresented.
‐‐ Arlen Specter
African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien
African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
‐‐ Cynthia McKinney
African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.
‐‐ Herman Cain
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
‐‐ Bebe Moore Campbell
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
‐‐ Alveda King
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
‐‐ Mos Def
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
‐‐ George Ayittey
African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.
‐‐ Chris Abani
African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.
‐‐ Jill Scott
African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.
‐‐ Alex Berenson