African Philosophy Quotes

“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead.”
― Marcus Garvey, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“Ideas are worth nothing until belief persists.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“Mother!
Ripped apart.
Reaped stones of poverty,
weeds that sprouted.
Grown to fast,
crowned young mother.

HIV reaped the harvest of my parents left me with nothing but toddler to take care of.
Robbed my youth and my hey days, left naked among a thousand suns. The splendor, the splendor of pain. My face is beautiful broken pottery,
a poetry art scene.

The screams inside ravage and rammer the very child born along thorns of anguish.”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche, Depth of colour

“In Miss Behave, I jump between time and space because that’s how life comes to me, leaping between triggers and glimmers.”
― Malebo Sephodi