Africa Quotes
They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.
The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive.
We should not need to have a "Save an Animal Day", Save from what?, It is in fact "Save from who". It is Human Kindness, Compassion and Caring that so desperately needs to be saved.
There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.
In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds
A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?
How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?
If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation.
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.
I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.
I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.
Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...
For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!
Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power
The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.
I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.
My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.
Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!
Africans must change their mind and actions.The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.
When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.
It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: 'UNSURV
The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to manage its resources prudently and efficiently to minimise its dependence on aid.
Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.
The more Africa depends on aid the less opportunities it creates for its people
In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.
The future of wildlife and the habitat that they depend on is being destroyed. It is time to make nature and all the beauty living within it our priority.
Wherever there are wild animals in the world, there is always an opportunity for caring, compassion and kindness.
Africa has within it everything it needs to reach the peace. But Africa does not do Africa, Africa does foreigners
Freedom is not a privilege for some but a right for ALL
But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.
The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa
Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.
Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.
There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.
It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.
Dirty politicians, corrupt leaders and thieves are sent to the Ugandan parliament and state house by lazy Ugandans who don’t go to vote.
..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.
A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy.
As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. They were the new Hebrews – homeless.