Kinshasa Quotes

“I'm not interested in whether I'm better than you; only whether I'm better than yesterday.”
― Mike Ormsby, Child Witch Kinshasa

“From Kinshasa to Lagos to Addis Ababa, there are a multitude of business opportunities to invest in throughout the continent.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Of course colonial governance can only return with the consent of the country in question. The nationalist leaders in developing countries are probably not eager to see this happen. But the people- given those decades of ‘anti-colonial disaster’- possibly are.”
― Bruce Gilley

“Since we have no confidence in the government that has just been formed in Leopoldville and is led by Mister Lumumba, we have decided to declare Katanga Independent.”
― Moïse Tshombe

“Bij het verlaten van het stadion reageerden bills, arbeiders, werklozen, drommels, kwaaie mamans en scholieren hun razernij af op de omgeving. Auto’s van blanke kolonisten die het stadion wilden verlaten, werden bekogeld met stenen. Zoiets hadden die nog nooit meegemaakt. Voetbal moest het volk toch gedeisd houden.”
― David Van Reybrouck, Congo: een geschiedenis