1,044 Quotes About Africa

Maybe it's possible in Africa to hold back election results for a couple of weeks, but you cannot do that in Germany.

These programs can generate positive spillover effects for neighboring countries as well as a powerful demonstration effect for all Africa by creating more convincing models for sustained transformation.

By using this fund to augment existing development programs, we can help selected countries overcome key binding constraints and break into higher growth. These programs can generate positive spillover effects for neighboring countries, as well as a powerful demonstration effect for all Africa , by creating more convincing models for sustained transformation.

More critically, the statements that we make can get picked up internationally (and) then feed to the kind of perceptions that South Africa and Africa are incapable of hosting an important international event like this.

There are very few slave narratives because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. This man remembered being captured in Africa when he was 16. He remembers vividly the voyage to the Caribbean Islands, being sold to a ship's captain.

I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.

There is enough fresh water in Africa for everybody, but management of water resources is less than optimal.

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.

I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.