Africa Quotes

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's ...

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered thi...

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would th...

Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husb...

You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one ...

She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tum...

...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could n...

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breas...

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some...

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with w...

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but ...

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert t...

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subg...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

When I was commander of Central Command, obviously we were very concerned about the developments in ...

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray....

THE LILIESThis morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reel...

Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of ...

What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been bro...

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South A...

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for...

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the co...

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth coul...

the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a ...

I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human...

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute sil...

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality ...

It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I ...

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensi...

The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty...

At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, ...

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 ...

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would cha...

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have wit...

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of...

Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly...

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the street...

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And the...

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you wi...

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation fou...

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

-Back there our sun doesn't speak.-Where's "there," Miss Marta?-Back there, in Europe. Here, it's di...

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought aga...

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Af...

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetu...

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope fo...

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a ph...

...it was just a version of Rimbaud in Harar: the exile, a selfish beast with modest fantasies of po...

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers -...

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human bei...

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rub...

I want to defend Ben Bella just as I am going to defend Boumedienne. Ben Bella was not the 'demon' t...

The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immens...

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, re...

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begi...

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black ...

We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back ...

From the beginning, Europe assumed the power to make decisions within the international trading syst...

On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several ext...

Have you a room that you could let?""Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let i...

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the ...

All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If t...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love th...

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none ...

It was a good thing to be an African. There were terrible things that happened in Africa, things tha...

The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometime...

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help eve...

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Then there was Mr Mandela. Everybody knew about Mr Mandela and how he had forgiven those who had imp...

Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at t...

They sang that song which distills all the suffering and the hope of Africa; that song which had ins...

It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and ...

She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machine...

A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of l...

The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which ...

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and ...

This friendship among women is something Samuel often talks about. Because the women share a husband...

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combina...

Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it coul...

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it...

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and forei...