1,044 Quotes About Africa

When I looked through old pictures of my family, I always thought that the reason why they looked dusty was because of the quality of the camera back in the days but then my mother would explain to me that the picture literally reflected the times they lived in.

The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to manage its resources prudently and efficiently to minimise its dependence on aid.

We aren't really called to save the world, not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there.

I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour.

Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100

Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?” There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us.Pg.26

The colonists, the aid workers, the NGOs -- they're all in a single progression: paternalistic foreigners, assuming they are better and brighter, offering shiny, destabilizing, dependence producing gifts. How can one accept anything from so-called rescuers when their predecessors helped your people destroy one another?

I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.

Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.