Top 215 Quotes & Sayings by Sudanese Authors - Page 2

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.

I'm looking forward to the time they describe me as the former president. And, of course, there are pressures from my own party and other Sudanese parties also, and I succumb to those pressures, but I hope as soon as possible I can find an exit out of this.

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

In 2020, there will be a new president, and I will be an ex-president.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

I read a lot of fiction.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

When Qadhafi was in Libya, he was the major supporter of rebel groups in Sudan. So when the revolution came to Libya, we supported it.

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

More people smile at me now I'm richer.

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

Corruption exists everywhere.

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.

As a government, it is our responsibility to maintain security for all citizens in Darfur.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

I am a Nubian.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.