#africa

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#groth #inspirational #leadership #motivational #nationbuilding

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#based #because #believe #good #good script

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#i #known #little #monday #renowned

A single three-bladed fan turned slowly in the centre of the ceiling, barely disturbing the scorching air which filled the small prefabricated hut like an oven... ↗

— Kevin Cowdall

#kevin-cowdall #north-africa-campaign #world-war-two #men

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african american #american #community #diabetes #does

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#also #attacks #important #september #stress

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. ↗

— Bono

#also #home #million #people #poorest

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#begin #code #department #find #genetic

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#african #african americans #beginning #behind #first