Top 1200 West Africa Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

I've travelled a lot so I've been to South Africa before and it's beautiful.

I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

I coached five clubs in South Africa and I was successful with them.

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base.

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us.

The main cause of food security in Africa is war and conflict.

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

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

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

The U.S. government understands the importance of Nigeria in Africa and the world at large.

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.

I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.