Quotes About Africa

History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught in the country set free from colonialism and its puppet rulers. Africa will write her own history and it will be a history of glory and dignity.

Oscar described the idea of partnership from a more relational culture's perspective: "For us in Africa, we think from a family paradigm. When we come together in partnership, it's a partnership based on relationships (not tasks), and we stay partners for life.

Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.

Deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

The current human rights movement in Africa - with the possible exception of the women's rights movement and faith-based social justice initiatives - appears almost by design to exclude the participation of the people whose welfare it purports to advance.' - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

don't know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here." Without

don't know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here." Without any further ceremony, Denys tipped his hat to me, and then the two men moved off down the road, turning a corner and passing out of sight. They might have been headed to another party, or to white steeds waiting to whisk them off to an enchanted palace. I would have believed a magic carpet as well, or any storybook ending. They were that lovely, and now they were gone. —

It was Lavender who drove us to the Norfolk Hotel in Jock's yellow Bugatti. He sped through the streets of Nairobi, throwing me across the leather backseat towards Jock, so that I nearly bruised myself against his clenched thighs.

On the street, it was dark in the way only Africa can be.

I couldn't keep it out and stopped trying. I couldn't keep anything out, I realized, and that was something I loved about Africa. The way it got at you from the outside in and never let up, and never let you go.

No passado, os grandes homens da Europa em sessões magnas, festins e banhos de champanhe dividiram o continente negro em grandes e boas fatias, escravizaram, torturaram, massacraram e deportaram as almas destas terras. Hoje, gente oriunda das antigas potências colonizadoras diz que dá a sua mão desinteressada para ajudar os que sofrem. É preciso acreditar na mudança

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

OW: Well, you see, I'm not like you. I'm not judgmental. With me, it's, "Here I am, not going to Africa." I don't say to myself, "Why don't you go to Africa?" I don't discuss it with myself. Because if I did, I would go to Africa. So it is the self-indulgent devil in me that stops the dialogue.

She compares up, to the First World, where privileges are treated as rights. I compare down, to the apocalyptic Africa that presses in around us, where rights are only for the privileged. After covering wars in Mozambique, Angola, Uganda, Somalia, and Sudan, Zimbabwe feels to me like Switzerland.

sauvignon blanc and turns to look out the window. "Africans can't do governments," he suddenly announces. "We are useless at it, disorganized." I close my newsmagazine and nod noncommittally. "And our institutions never work because we never pay our dues." He reaches up and presses his bell for more wine.

Most of the people who would have apologised for Stalin in his day have now found other causes - the cultural and sexual revolution, campaigns to tax the Western poor to provide money for Africa's rich, and above all, the intolerant and puritan secular fundamentalism that gathers around the belief in madmade global warming.