There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.

Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.

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