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I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.
Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble'".
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
I believe that international support through critical funds, together with the determination of my compatriots, Malawi can be a model country for meeting global health targets and get on with the business of African-driven global economic growth.
I really fell in love with Africa.
Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.
We have decided to diversify agriculture; we decided to develop our tourism sector. We have decided to develop our mining sector. So these are some of the things we're telling Malawians: we say this is what we need to do in order for us to get out of this total dependence on aid.
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.
I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.
I don't feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.
Africa will thrive.
The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.
Africa is the future.
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.
I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.
Africa the place is forever obscured by the shadow of Africa the notion.
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept ... You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.
We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.
I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
Another Country,
Hardly Africa. Not a stone has a familiar cast; the sky and the earth meet like strangers, and the touch of the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. Such is Molo. Its first glance presages the character I later learn - a stern country,
Ghana is like a lion without a head
I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.
Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
Africa is on the rise.
I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.
I fell in love with Africa while I was there.
Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless.
Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'
In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
someone in Tunis. Halabi
I'm honoured when Africa recognises me
I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.
I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Unhappy Persia, that in former age
Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors,
That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa.
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
Africa is a very dangerous place.
One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
Cape Verde produces good people.
Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.
Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit
All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.
In Congo, a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matter. Africa swallowed the conqueror's music and sang a new song of her own.
It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here ... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
As they say in Corsica... Goodbye
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.
The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.
Africa is cruel ... it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds
Africans ... their tired. They're tired of being the subject of everybody's charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.
By any means necessary, I am for Africa.
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom.
In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.
There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.
Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.
Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
Malawians must look forward toward a better future.
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
Africa needs access to markets.
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.
I never thought I'd be with an African, someone so different, from this tiny village."
Sophie