All Quotes

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