The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce. – Richard Attias
We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students. – Shakira
If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here. – Patrice Motsepe
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though. – Roger Tory Peterson
In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development. – Paul Kagame
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
It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself. – Richard Attias
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music. – Rokia Traore
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn’t find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. – Richard Stanley
The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all – Communists and non-Communists alike – want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa. – Oliver Tambo
We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent. – Pratibha Patil
Improving Africa’s farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people. – Richard Attias
There’s a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy’s plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We’re gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa. – Sean Combs
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. – Robert Mugabe
The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia. – Peter Uihlein
Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it’s rough out there. But the bottom line is you’ve got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I’m totally addicted to traveling. – Quincy Jones
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. – Omar Bongo
In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. – Peter Abrahams
Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid. – Oliver Tambo
Egypt was – as it is now – a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. – Ridley Scott
Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa. – Robert C. Solomon
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. – Robert Mugabe
I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole. – Richard Branson
Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models – they are essential to the advancement of our society. – Richard Attias