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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
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the hero of Africa.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities. If you have the cameras and reasonable capital, you can put your film in theatres next to 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' A great example of that was Kagiso Lediga's film 'Blitz Patrole.'
- American Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
- Extreme Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli relations mushroom.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
It should be underscored that our goal is not, and should not, be a crusade against the ICC but a solemn call for the organisation to take Africa's concerns seriously.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020