Africa Quotes
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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
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Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.
Nwankwo Kanu
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
Bono U2
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It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.
Nicky Oppenheimer
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The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.
Euvin Naidoo
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We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?
Steve Lukather Toto
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Obviously I descend from Africa.
Eric Reid
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In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
Beryl Markham
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
Bill Gates
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"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
Michael Jackson
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In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.
Jimmy Carter
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
Beryl Markham
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All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
Ernie Pyle
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I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.
Nicky Oppenheimer