Africans Quotes
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Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
Uzodinma Iweala
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We need to work together to help Africans address critical issues such as health and education, governance, water and agriculture, trade and investment and peace and security.
Jean Chretien
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Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.
Chancellor Williams
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
Bono
U2
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People of today should not forget those Africans who made a major contribution to world peace.
Abdoulaye Wade
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.
Uzodinma Iweala