Quotes About Africa

June 23 is World Giraffe Day

Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.

Britches," John Cabot murmured. To Vanderbilt, he said in a low voice, "It's fascinating—the connections of their speech with Elizabethan England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as Africa, significantly. Their speech, the construction of their homes, their methods of farming, their musical instruments, all of it hardly evolved from earlier eras across oceans. Like a time capsule here in the hollows of the Blue Ridge.

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

The future of Africa is in innovative engineering.

I feel that my winning 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and also being all the way from Africa gave people the audacity to just be themselves, all while encouraging and inspiring many people back home.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

I am interested in bringing Africa to the foot of the Cross.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

We have to remember that in addition to the political relationship between India and African nations, there is a social relationship… India is a young nation, as are most African nations, and our friendship and relationship therefore is also very young. It is sad that the seeds of hatred are being sown in such a nascent relationship, to the point that it's in danger of evolving into something none of us will be able to stomach," {thecitizen.in}

David had once told me that there was no sky as totally black as the African sky, where the stars hung so low that one could almost reach out to pluck them from the heavens. [270]

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Il presidente del Senegal, il poeta Leopold Sedar Senghor, ci ha detto in un incontro: "Presto, non perdete tempo. Girate l'Africa nera, in lungo e in largo per ascoltare gli ultimi nostri cantastorie. Ogni vecchio griot che muore è una biblioteca che brucia".

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

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

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties; it doubts our concern, and it questions our commitment. Six and a half thousand Africans are still dying every day of preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity: This is about Justice and Equality.

The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.

History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa ... whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames ... or not.

They maintained that the institution of slavery already existed in Africa and that they had merely transported slaves to the Christian world where they would become civilized and saved, once they knew true religion.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.