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“Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.”
― Ali A. Mazrui, Africa, the next thirty years

tags: africa, african, african-authors, african-leaders, african-literature, ali-a-mazrui, ali-mazrui, harmon-okinyo, harmon-okinyo-quote, leadership, prof-ali-mazrui

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“Africa! Africa! Africa!
Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Africans must educate their citizens.
Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.
Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education.
Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: africa, africa-continent, africa-people, africa-quotes, african-american-authors, african-authors, african-believes, african-citizens, african-leaders, african-literature, african-my-motherland, africans, afro-american, afro-american-relations, afro-caribbean, continent-of-africa, diaspora, diaspora-aesthetics, education, life-quotes, lifelong-education, lifelong-experience, lifelong-learner, lifelong-learning, political, political-philosophy, politicians, politics, politics-of-africa, politics-of-the-united-states, poverty, poverty-alleviation, poverty-and-politics, quotes-of-africa

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“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

tags: africa, africa-house, africa-leaders, africa-people, africa-quotes, africa-s-predicament, africa-s-wealth, africa-will-shake, african, african-authors, african-believes, african-citizens, african-continent, african-cultural, african-culture, african-cup-of-nations, african-descent, african-development, african-development-bank, african-dictators, african-fiction, african-freethinker, african-great-healer, african-great-lakes, african-healer, african-juju, african-languages, african-leaders, african-literature, african-my-motherland, african-national-congress, african-people, african-proverb, african-quotes, african-safari, african-saying, african-socialism, african-story-telling, african-traditional-healer, african-union, african-woman, african-women, african-writer, africana, africana-studies, africans, china-achebe, desmond-tutu, kofi-annan, kwame-nkrumah, nelson-mandela, tribal, tribalism, tribe, tribes

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“I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.”
― PLO Lumumba

tags: plo-lumumba

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“Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder