1,044 Quotes About Africa

To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.” ~from the dedication

Africa es la madre de la humanidad. Y ellas son las madres de Africa. De aquí surgió el primer ser humano. Y era mujer.

Luz amarilla y suave que ilumina mi realidad. Que alumbra ligeramente el rostro de la humanidad. Lo suficiente como para reconocernos. Lo suficiente para buscar a verdaderos humanos.

There is no middle class in Africa.There is poverty masked with graduation gowns and debts

Existing in this era comes with many contradictions. Contradictions because we have so much to unlearn.

We were in Africa". I know, I know. What were we doing there? We must have lived, somehow. Eaten, slept, raised children? Was it so savage and horrible that it is netter forgotten? Who can tell me? No one. Because nobody knows and everyone takes for granted what they've been told.

L'Africa è incompresa: nonostante tutte le sue ricchezze umane che ha da condividere, è il continente più abbandonato del nostro pianeta.

I knew that whenever I thought of love, it would have a face, a name, a voice. And I would hear its heart beating from inside a tent in the wilds of Africa.

​There is an old Congo saying that if one watches the Congo River long enough, the bodies of one's enemies will eventually go floating by. Kasavubu had been watching the Congo River as President for the last five years, during which time four Prime Ministers had gone floating by.