Africa Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Africa
Africa Quotes & Sayings
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The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.
— Mike Bond
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
— Thabo Mbeki
S'tjwetla is a black man's striptease.
— Toba Beta
The sea has testified that Africa and Europe have kissed
— Miguel El Portugues
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
— Joakim Noah
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
— Peter Beard
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.
— Pope Francis
Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?
— T.K. Naliaka
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
— Will Rogers
We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.
— LeCrae
Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party
— Nelson Mandela
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
— James Shikwati
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
— Beryl Markham
And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
— Karen Blixen
Wonderland is a real a place as Africa or Asia.
— Marty Rubin
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
— River Phoenix
Niki blurted out the news. "Some joker in Africa has done a heart transplant!" "Jesus . . ." Kantrowitz groaned. He knew who had beaten him. "Barnard!
— Donald McRae
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.
— Mary Steenburgen
The Sahara is Africa's great divide.
— Richard Engel
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
— Matthew McConaughey
All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
— James A. Baldwin
We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.
— George W. Bush
I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride,
— Fatou Bensouda
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.
— Mike Bond
For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.
— Dianna Agron
If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
— Patrice Motsepe
Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.
— T.K. Naliaka
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
— Romeo Dallaire
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.
— Dianna Agron
A stable and prosperous DRC is the victory of the World. Congo is a deciding factor for Africa's development whether we like it or not.
— Ahmed Padia Binkatabana
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
— Djimon Hounsou
Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
— Douglas Wilder
If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change
— Tara Fela-Durotoye
Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.
— Kim Basinger
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
— John Henrik Clarke
. In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.
— Matthew Reilly
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
— Marcus Garvey
Africa's not a color - it's a place.
— Trevor Noah
Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.
— Mike Bond
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
— Edward Ball
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.
— Lauren Beukes
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.
— Jacob Zuma
This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.
— Kenny Baker
I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
— Candice Swanepoel
There is always something new out of Africa.
— Pliny The Elder
Africa is a very dangerous place.
— Janine Di Giovanni
Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
— Peter Mutanda
Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.
— Benito Mussolini
Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
— Caterina Murino
I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.
— Susan Minot
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
— Kwame Nkrumah
The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
— Marcus Garvey
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
— Mo Ibrahim
One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa.
— Nelson Mandela
I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme ... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.
— Mo Ibrahim
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
— Mo Ibrahim
It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
— T.K. Naliaka
Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
— Damian Marley
When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.
— Henry Rollins
I've been to North Africa many times.
— Martin Scorsese
Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
— Oprah Winfrey
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
— Carroll Quigley
Africa needs access to markets.
— Jakaya Kikwete
Africa is the cradle of cosmic civilization. At the fullness of time of Africa, the entire world shall be saved.
— Womi
Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries
— Louise Mushikiwabo
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
— Alan Paton
I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
— Euzhan Palcy
The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
— Rich Mullins
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
— George Ayittey
I fell in love with Africa while I was there.
— Renee O'Connor
"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
— Michael Jackson
By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
— Hans Vestberg