Africa Quotes
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
Bono U2 -
Africa will most likely remain as the last bastion of internal combustion engines.
Craig Parker
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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.
Abderrahmane Sissako -
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow
Bernard Membe -
Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.
Michael Sata -
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
Rudyard Kipling -
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
Hasso Plattner -
I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.
Gerald Horne
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Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.
Edward Wilmot Blyden -
The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.
Uzodinma Iweala -
I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.
Bill Gates -
The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
George C. Kimble -
In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.
Beryl Markham -
You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.
Bill Gates
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I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new pattern for democracy. There is a challenge for us to set a new example for all. Let us not side step this task.
Albert Lutuli -
No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.
Jimmy Carter -
Rosanna was the hit, but Africa resonated with everyone who heard it.
Steve Lukather Toto -
Even when things are stable, that's not easy to work in Africa because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.
Bill Gates -
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
Ali Mazrui -
With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.
Bill Gates
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
Bill Gates -
Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds.
Elspeth Huxley -
My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.
Alexander Murdoch Mackay -
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono U2