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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.
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- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marseille has a big Muslim community. The good thing is it is a melting point: all nationalities in there. Everyone is fine with each other. It is really close to North Africa, to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, so a lot of them come from there.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
- Plague
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
- Big Proponent
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- Nov 07, 2020
You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There was literally a church on every corner.
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- Nov 07, 2020