#africa

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

#advantage #african #age #child #constitute

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

#battle #effect #humanity #which #will

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#around #because #carry #coming #face

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#already #also #been #drummer #drums

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look! ↗

— Mitt Romney

#african-american community #better #community #him #look

I've been doing African dance all my life. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#been #dance #doing #i #life

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'. ↗

— Lin Biao

#america #areas #asia #called #cities

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#filming #five #i #know #many

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#being #better #better things #country #enjoyed