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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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“When I look at Africa many questions come to mind, many times I have asked myself what would happen if Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba were to rise up and see what is happening, many times I have asked myself what would happen if Nelson Madiba Mandela were to rise up and see what is happening, because what they will be confronted with is an Africa where the Democratic Republic of Congo is unsettled, there is a war going on there, but it's not on the front pages of our newspapers because we don't even control our newspapers and the media.”
― PLO Lumumba

tags: african-leaders, african-leadership, kwame-nkrumah, nelson-mandela, patrice-lumumba

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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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“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 don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder