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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Around Become Exclusive Financial Hardly Knowledge Lack Literacy Lower Many Means Men Money Poverty Power Slide Struggle Than Throughout Vulnerability West Widows Women World

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The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Aid Alive Communities Culture International Philanthropy Spent Strengthens Time Very Well Where

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There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Children Constant Education Escape Expected Exploring Grow Growing How Learning Life Meant Million Myriad Other School Struggle Trapped Ways Were While Who Without

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Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.

~Anna Diop

Topics: Africa Articles Australia Because Broadcast China Coolest Go Got Growing Growing Up Her Job Journalist Love People Read She South South Africa Stories Tell Thought Travel Travels Up Used Wanted Watch Who World

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I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the girl who knew nothing of the world.

~Annabelle Wallis

Topics: Africa America Conservation Done Girl Globe Ingenue Knew Never Nothing South South America Through Traveled Who Work World

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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Africa Age Around Eight Elderly Expectancy Fact Few First First Time Five Fortunate In Fact Life Life Expectancy Live Many Me Mean Occurred One Of The Things Parts People Saw Something Things Thirty Time Uganda Very You

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When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Africa Barefoot Children Dirty Go Love Rags School See You

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I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: About Africa Arms Bird Cover Everybody Fact Flu Front Hiv Infected Many Newspapers Pages People Percent Really Still Sub-Saharan Understand Up Why Women

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Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

~Anthony Fauci

Topics: Africa Certain Challenges Countries Delivering Efforts Eradicate Failed Including Instability Malaria Political Previous Reasons Resources Several Technical

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My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

~Antony Sher

Topics: Africa Came Grandparents South South Africa

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