Africa Quotes
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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I love Africa.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
