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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.
You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.
I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.
I did a lot of ramp modelling in South Africa and Hong Kong, when models were free to dance and walk on the ramp.
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.
We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.
Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
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.
When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
I really wanted to take 'Dilbar' to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
'Africa shall be saved.' I heard God's message so clearly. In response, my family moved from Lesotho to South Africa in 1974.