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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
While much attention was focused on Germany during the 2015 refugee crisis, in which more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa entered the continent at the behest of Angela Merkel, the country that admitted the most migrants per capita was Sweden.
- Cuisines
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020