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Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Africa African Aids American Books Certain Come Exotic Expectations Maybe Poverty Think Wildlife Will Write Writers

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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.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Adopt Africa African Child Children Eyes Find Flies Go Madonna More Pictures Problematic Saving Say She Show Simple Suggestion Than Us You

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If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Africa Case Death Engage Everybody Followed Important Media Other Starving Think You

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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Africa African Came Classes College Egypt Everyone Expected Explain Know Matter Me Realized States Subject Turned United United States Up Whenever Whether I Came

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

~Chinua Achebe

Topics: Africa African Bad Body Contact European Five Four Had Hundred Hundred Years Justify Last Light Literature Need Presented Produced Reason Slave Slavery Terms Trade Very Years

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I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

~Chris Froome

Topics: Africa Britain Carrying Certainly Coming Country Even Feel Flag Get Help Honour Knowing Like Motivate People Possible Roots Same Same Time Third Third World Time Top Want Wherever World I Feel

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You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

~Chris Tucker

Topics: About Africa Concerned Going Know Missing Much Should You

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

~Christiaan Barnard

Topics: Africa Known Little Monday Saturday South South Africa Surgeon Very World

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I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.

~Christoffel Wiese

Topics: Africa Anywhere Anywhere Else Being Being Happy Cannot Cape Else General Happy Imagine Particular South South Africa Town World

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I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

~Christoffel Wiese

Topics: About Africa Almost Amazing Awakening Been Best Billion Climate Dark Extremely Hopeless Huge Invest Investment Market Neither People Place Population Positive Possibilities Resources Today Wonderful Wonderful People Young

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