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.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
