African Quotes
Quotes from African writers, leaders and thinkers — cited to a published source wherever one is known. 269 in the archive.
- A goat eats where it has been tied.Malawi
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.South Africa
- A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.Nigeria
- It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.Kenya
- A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.South Africa
- A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude, it acts.Nigeria
- A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work & dedication is required to make that vision a reality.Zimbabwe
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.Nigeria
- The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.Nigeria
- Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.Nigeria
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.Nigeria
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.Nigeria
- What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.Nigeria
- It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.United Kingdom
- The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.United States
- I am an African, not because I was born in Africa but because Africa is born in me.Ghana
- African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.Kenya
- It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.Kenya
- Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.United States
- After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.South Africa
- You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.South Africa
- All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.Kenya
- For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.South Africa
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.Nigeria