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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.
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- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
- Life
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Radio is the death and life of Africa.
- Possible
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Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
- Excluded
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Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
- Extended
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In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
- Own
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The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
- Home
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Ravi Shastri has been claiming that Indian team was very successful under him, but he never told us that India lost ODI series to Bangladesh, lost ODI series to South Africa at home.
- Mentor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
- Important
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
- Dominion
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- Nov 07, 2020