Quotes About Africa

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

Facebook brings the Internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of poor people. And getting government grants to do that, because they do PR well.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

Africa's young population could be a huge economic asset if inequality were addressed.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

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.

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

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.

I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.

The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

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

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

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

The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

My love, my passion, my everything is this continent of Africa. I have always celebrated African humanity.

I love Africa. I am very grateful for everything I have in Europe but everything I'm learning I want to help my continent to get better - in football as well.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.