Interesting quotes about Africa

"Until lions learn to write, hunters will tell their story for them"

"We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery."

"Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flights" David Livingstone on the largest curtain of falling water in the world

"The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa - for he has so much to look forward to."

Stephen Lewis

"It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa".

Nkwame Nkrumah

"I am an African, not because I was born in Africa but because Africa is born in me."

William Easterly

Today, as I sip my Rwandan gourmet coffee and wear my Nigerian shirt here in New York, and as European men eat fresh Ghanaian pineapple for breakfast and bring Kenyan flowers home to their wives, I wonder what it will take for Western consumers to learn even more about the products of self-sufficient, hardworking, dignified Africans. Perhaps they should spend less time consuming Africa disaster stereotypes from television and Vanity Fair.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land”

Joseph Thomson

“The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.”

Joseph Thomson was a Scottish geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa

Cecil John Rhodes

“The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

Cecil John Rhodes on why he left England for South Africa”