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Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. -- George Ayittey
Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes. -- Djimon Hounsou
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. -- Claire Denis
My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West. -- Djimon Hounsou
Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. -- Mo Ibrahim
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence. -- Richard Grant
Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people. -- Richard Attias
We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent. -- Pratibha Patil
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. -- Wole Soyinka
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated. -- John Dramani Mahama
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. -- James D. Watson
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo. -- Dikembe Mutombo
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again? -- Arundhati Roy
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.' -- Wole Soyinka
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. -- Ozwald Boateng
Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place. -- Jill Scott
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl. -- Jane Goodall
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. -- John Dramani Mahama
Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into. -- Jochen Zeitz
Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact - coming back to the land mass - Africa is so big that you could fit in the continental United States, China, and the entire Europe into Africa and still have space. -- Euvin Naidoo
The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. -- Chantal Zabus
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent -- Kwame Nkrumah
The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us. -- Akilnathan Logeswaran
The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids. -- Noel Gallagher
Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace. -- Haile Selassie
I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument. -- Thabo Mbeki
Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete. -- Matthew Parris
I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent. -- Dambisa Moyo

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