1,044 Quotes About Africa

  • Author Tamar Myers
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    To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.

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  • Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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    We must act now to prevent further spread of EBOLA VIRUS. If we do not act collectively, EBOLA VIRUS will wipe all whole populations and generations into their grave. The call to action is now.

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  • Author T.K. Naliaka
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    Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth.

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  • Author T.K. Naliaka
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    Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?

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  • Author Ryszard Kapuściński
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    The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

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