Africa Quotes
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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
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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.
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"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
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I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Acceloph coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.
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All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
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I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It’s right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
