1,044 Quotes About Africa

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

Truth knows the way.Knowledge sees the way.Intuition feels the way.Experience goes all the way.Wisdom knows the way.Understanding sees the way.Passion feels the way.Love goes all the way.Nature knows the way.Prudence sees the way.Compassion feels the way.Virtue goes all the way.Teachers know the way.Professors see the way.Students feel the way.Sages go all the way.Time knows the way.Fate sees the way.Chance feels the way.Destiny goes all the way.

If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

Deep in the heart of the hot, wet African rainforest, there lives a tribe of peacemakers who share a multiplicity of pleasures and make a very special kind of love. South of the sprawling Congo River, in the midst of war-ravaged territory, some 2,000 miles from the arid Ethiopian desert where the oldest human fossils have been found, lies this lush and steamy jungle paradise, the only natural habitat of the bonobo.

I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like

We need to change how we do things. We should choose the best people for jobs not just our friends. We should not ask people to pay us bribes to build roads. We should not ask people for extra money to get their land certificates. They should only pay the right amount. All if these actions are types of corruption.

At times, we need to be like the weed, which bends in the wind,' the old shaman eventually says.