Africa Quotes - page 28

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. (George Weah)
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa. View quote
George Weah
Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East. View quote
Gail Collins
Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career. View quote
Gail Kelly
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure. View quote
Graydon Carter
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts. View quote
George Ayittey
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came. View quote
George Ayittey
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. View quote
George Ayittey
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt. View quote
George Ayittey
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa. View quote
George Ayittey
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault. (George Ayittey)
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective. View quote
George Ayittey
Radio is the death and life of Africa. View quote
George Ayittey
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. View quote
George Ayittey
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal. View quote
George Ayittey
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.' View quote
George Ayittey
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry. View quote
George Ayittey
What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa. View quote
George Ayittey
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. View quote
George Ayittey
The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics. View quote
George Ayittey
That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal. (Herb Ritts)
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. View quote
Hugh Masekela
Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born. View quote
Hugh Masekela
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa. View quote
Hugh Masekela
The kingdoms of Africa, and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens. View quote
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