#africa

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade. ↗

— Donald Evans

#bush #deep #development #economic #economic development

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#african americans #benefits #currently #daily #depend

Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided embark on it in the first place. True adventure does not follow well-trodden paths. Absence of certainty is its essence. People, like you and I, who choose to shun the mundane must not only expect, but also enjoy and profit from surprises. ↗

— Adam Yamey

#migration #south-africa #historical-fiction

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#african #armies #because #intimidate #keeping

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#america #apartheid #course #dictators #latin

I am the hero of Africa. ↗

— Idi Amin

#am #hero #i #i am

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#around #been #call #comes #culture

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #american #among #association

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#barely #bringing #case #countries #engaged