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Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Africa Counterparts Even Focused Higher Increase Like Manage Markets More Pay Places Productive Productivity Sub-Saharan Tend Than Thrive Wages World

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Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Africa Between Bridges Building Companies Countries East Eyes India Indian Initiative Opportunities Own See Taking Through

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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

~Art Blakey

Topics: Africa America American Art Art Form Connect Countries Damn Damn Thing Form Instance Jazz Known Musical Other Other Countries Over People Seen Thing Try World

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You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.

~Arthur L. Herman

Topics: Africa Again Although Back Battlefield Churchill Crossed Discovered Each Fact Gandhi Globe In Fact India Literally London Met Once Only Other Over Passed Paths Physically Remember South South Africa War Yards You

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A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.

~Arturo O'Farrill

Topics: Aesthetic Africa African Away Because Cuba Cultural Culture Cultures Embrace Groups Identity Like Lot Love Mistake Move Part Reasons Roots Spend Them Think Trying Which Whole I Think I Love

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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Africa Again Anywhere Around Continent India Kicked Longing Over Pakistan People South South Africa Think You

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I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.

~Asma Jahangir

Topics: Africa Am America Army Care Concerned Country Only People Saved Should Think I Am

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All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Apartheid Been Boxing Change Else Extraordinary Finding Finding Yourself Get Gloves Had Having Life Lifetime Like My Life Nobody Nobody Else Off Opponent Out Realising Reinvent Ring Shadow South South Africa Spent Suddenly Take Through You Yourself

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Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Ask Basis Courage Done Forgiveness Had Having Movement Realization Realizing Really Significant South South Africa White Without

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I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Beautiful Dried Else Everything Everything Else Most Most Powerful Out Powerful South Survives Symbols Think Wild I Think

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