1,044 Quotes About Africa

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power

Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

Όσο πιο πολύ τους συναναστρέφομαι, τόσο λιγότερο παρατηρώ το χρώμα του δέρματός τους, όπως δεν παρατηρώ στο Παρίσι ή στην Αθήνα ότι οι άνθρωποι γύρω μου είναι λευκοί. Μέρα με τη μέρα ανακαλύπτω ότι δεν υπάρχουν μαύροι στην Αφρική. Μόνο στις άλλες ηπείρους είναι ορατό το χρώμα τους. Το δέρμα τους είναι μια πένθιμη αμφίεση που φορούν όταν μεταναστεύουν.

Fashion in Africa has always been Sustainable for decades. We just didn’t use the catchy buzzwords

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.