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Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: Africa African Because Corruption Culture Idea Images Many Need Negative Our Poverty Proud Says Society Succumb Things War

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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: About African After Aid Boston Care Citizens Distressing Leaders Little Need Number Representation Reverse Taxation Thanks Want Without

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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: African Behind Countries Day Down Each Each Day Further Go Hit Many Nowhere Rest Too World

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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: African Aid Countries Culture Currency Insidious Investment Left Markets More Unattractive Vulnerable

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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: About African Become Celebrities Comment Continent Dependence General Inadvertently Make Now Object Right Situation Where Whole

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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: Africa African Aid Because Clear Develop Equilibrium Industry Interest Jobs Lose More Only People Reached Then Those Very Voice Where Whose Would

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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

~Damian Marley

Topics: African Brown Drumming Hispanic James James Brown Like Lot Music Say Sounds Think Too Tribal Very You

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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Africa African Being Civil Civil War Covert Dark Extremely Happened High Levels Live Lot Never Out Played Psyche Something South South Africa South African State Things Think Time Ugly Very Violence War Way I Think

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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: African Confess Fiction Should South South African

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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: African Ever Forces Free Ideological Long Power Really Society South South African Wish I Wish

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