Africa Quotes
This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8
Sometimes when you're hurting, it helps to throw yourself at something that will take your weight.
We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.
My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.
It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.
Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.
This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.
Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.
It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.
As we stand on the precipice of a life of ministry, we will have to answer the question that Jesus poses to each one of us: Are you willing to count the cost?
To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.
If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.
Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?
The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.
It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city
Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.
The sea has testified that Africa and Europe have kissed
According to Okonkwo, the British via its indirect rule system ensured that Africans saw their native leaders as the demons who betrayed their people. He called it a demonocracy
...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...
I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.
Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.
Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.