- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do a film in Africa.
- Each Year
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Millions of women in malaria-endemic areas in Africa become pregnant every year. Malaria is a threat to these women and their babies, with up to 200,000 newborn deaths each year as a result of malaria.
- Exchanging
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All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.
- Mad
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I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.
- Lie
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Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
- Teach
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I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.
- Dish
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The South's cuisine is often likened to gumbo - a thick and bubbling melange, spiked with a little bit of this, a little bit of that - yet the metaphor, like the dish, comes from West Africa.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.
- Peace
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Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.
- Colonization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020