That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Af...
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.
Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.
Nicholas Garrigan: This is Africa. You meet violence with violence. Anything else, and you're dead.
Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.
