Africa Quotes
-
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.
Nas
-
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Patrick Chappatte
-
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
Youssou N'Dour
-
Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.
Steve Lukather Toto
-
I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
-
Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
Jack Keane
-
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.
Barton Gellman
-
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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
-
'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
Dambisa Moyo
-
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.
Nathan Sawaya
-
I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
Yolandi Visser
-
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
C. L. R. James
-
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.
Dambisa Moyo
-
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.
Callan McAuliffe
-
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
Fatou Bensouda
-
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.
Taiye Selasi
-
Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
Africa will thrive.
Bono U2
-
The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
Dambisa Moyo
-
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.
Abdullah Ibrahim
-
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo
-
Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
Damian Marley
-
As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
-
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni