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The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community — Fela Kuti

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me. — Dave Chappelle

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. — Dennis Prager

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am. — Wilbur Smith

South Africa's subprime crisis OP-ED — Anonymous

S'tjwetla is a black man's striptease. — Toba Beta

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place. — Damon Albarn

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot. — Louis Oosthuizen

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. — Liya Kebede

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon. — James Vanderbilt

Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead. — S.A. David

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place. — Jann Klose

I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa ... ' Some guy in a dashiki said, 'Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it's you.' — Ed O'Neill

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist. — Aliko Dangote

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural. — Hugh Masekela

The Sahara is Africa's great divide. — Richard Engel

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. — Hillary Clinton

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam. — Lauren Beukes

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture. — James Fenton

The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners — Saad-Eddine El Othmani

Africa is God's country, and He can have it. — Groucho Marx

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young. — Christoffel Wiese

What is South Africa's sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe? — Jeremy Riddle

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom. — Corinne Hofmann

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population. — Mo Ibrahim

I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting. — Geronimo Pratt

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. — Barbara Kingsolver

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa. — Chris Tucker

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development. — Haile Selassie

South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway. — Watkin Tudor Jones

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. — Mo Ibrahim

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat. — Scarlett Pomers

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

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed. — Tahir Shah

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating. — George Ayittey

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.' — Liya Kebede

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. — Claire Denis

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. — Ethan Zuckerman

He spoke about Africa in an unusual way. He spoke of Africa as though Africa was a sick child and he was the parent. — V.S. Naipaul

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. — Mo Ibrahim

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent. — Jochen Zeitz

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts. — George Ayittey

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did. — Letta Mbulu

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe. — Kenneth Kaunda

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. — Mo Ibrahim

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development. — Jesse Jackson

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent. — Sylvia Poggioli

There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless. — Veronika Varekova

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. — K'naan

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory. — Marcus Garvey

Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well. — Nicholas Kristof

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people. — Richard Attias

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

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. — Desmond Tutu

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off. — A.A. Gill

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up. — Nas

Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself. — Timothy Snyder

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America. — Wangechi Mutu

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning. — Amadou Hampate Ba

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. — George Ayittey

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

Africa's not a color - it's a place. — Trevor Noah

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

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

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

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking. — Oprah Winfrey

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

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. — Bono

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you." — Michael Jackson

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard. — Marcus Garvey

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

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. — Jacob Zuma

You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges.
Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent. — J.D. Robb

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. — Mary McLeod Bethune

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back. — George Ayittey

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here. — Hasso Plattner

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. — Susan Rice

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. — Elon Musk

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed. — Dikembe Mutombo

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa. — Britney Spears

Africa has no future. — V.S. Naipaul

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind. — Kevin Pietersen

My ability to get shocked has eloped with my sanity and run away to Africa. — S.M. Reine

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done. — Henry Rollins

The funnel of my family's salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman's toes — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. — Oliver Tambo

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there. — Jill Scott

Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life. — Bob Geldof

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big. — Yaya Toure

Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. — Komla Dumor