Quotes of: Subsaharan-africa Keyword

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

Lauren Beukes

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

Binyavanga Wainaina

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

Wesley Clark

Americans made beautiful, principled speeches and imposed countless conditions on all manner of things. But in the end, in Africa they seemed to move the ball very slowly. They regarded Africa not as a terrain of opportunity, or even as a morally com...

China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ , Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Nelson Mandela

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

Oliver Tambo

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.

Rush Limbaugh

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Tom Peters

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

David Harewood

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

Hugh Masekela

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

Dikembe Mutombo

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

Kenny Baker

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

George Ayittey

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

Helen Suzman

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Christiaan Barnard

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a rag...

Africa Must Unite

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

Peter Mutanda

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

Pratibha Patil

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Richard Leakey