Africa Quotes
The trouble with parents is they remember the things you don’t want them to remember. Then the things you want them to remember, they forget." Kosi Kamsi
In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation.
In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness
Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!
It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct.
Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.
The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.
If you are not filled with overflowing love, compassion and goodwill for all creatures living wild in nature, You will never know true happiness.
No matter how few possessions you own or how little money you have, loving wildlife and nature will make you rich beyond measure.
The future of wildlife and the habitat that they depend on is in being destroyed. It is time to make nature and all the beauty living within it our priority.
Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night
One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.
Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.
Lion, lion golden spunin savannahs of the sun, What immortal eye, or handweaves beasts from dreams, sews sky to land?
The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.
If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.
There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.
The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.
Come with me Tlothy. Lady misfortune always brings together the unlucky.” Said Aissawa laughing.
Peace and gladness in every home is a peace for the society, nation and the world.
In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.
Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.
Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.
What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?
The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.
Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.
Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.
In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.
Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.
As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.
Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.
A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything to one.
As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.
To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.
You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.
Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.
You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.
African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.