I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money, but everybody has trouble arranging something. I believe you c...
Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions you yourself keep in touch with what is going on by attentively following it from moment to moment, like a blin...
But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I’d signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn’t be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.
Cats are good at keeping clean [...] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really bad. So today we're going to do things the pig way, okay?
Young Ellie: [Ellie opens her Adventure Book to reveal to Carl a "Life" magazine with Charles Muntz on the cover] You know him. [Carl gasps] Young Ellie: Charles Muntz, explorer. When I get big, I'm going where he's going, [pulls away the magazine to...
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.
Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.
Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.
Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.
Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.
As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
