Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.
You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a lead...
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
