One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some African countries as a coming-of-age rite to control their sexuality, Westerners denounce it as genital mutilation; in...
Being depressed is one thing when your life can be seen by outsiders as justifiably hard, but it is a whole different shameful story when you have everything and still feel like you can't bear to get out of bed in the morning. People can't really be ...
He couldn't drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn't wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to rebut their savagery: these were the nicest man-eating barbarians a lonely wanderer could ever hope to encounter.
The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute...
Charlie: All this fool talk about The Louisa. Goin' down the river... Rose: What do you mean? Charlie: I mean we ain't goin' to do nothin' of the sort. Rose: Why, of course we're going! What an absurd idea! Charlie: What an absurd idea! What an absur...
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children o...
What's really good is African drum music.
We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Sgt. Mulcahy: You are ugly Mexican-African fuckin' whores!
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Chomie' is South African homosexual men’s unofficial name.
I've been doing African dance all my life.
I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.
