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Africa Quotes
A continent, spoken of in its own right.
This page includes a clearly inclusive statement rejecting homophobia as any part of a forward-looking African future, alongside a call to nurture fresh ideas that could genuinely help the continent, similar to Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for rituals or for a funeral or for challenges, thousands of years ago, and these rhythms are still used.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments that don't really exist anymore.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
- Hemisphere
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State, blows that attracted the notice and attention of colonial dissidents in Asia and Africa.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020