Africa Quotes
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This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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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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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
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Africa will thrive.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
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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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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
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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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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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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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Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.
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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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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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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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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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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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In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
