Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

— Marcus Garvey

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

— Richard Grant

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic. That response is understandable. It's only human to want to protect ourselves and our families.

— Tom Frieden

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

— Henry Rollins

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

— Alexandra Fuller

The murder of Mumbai, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

— Noam Chomsky

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

— Mo Ibrahim

We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back to before President Bill Clinton's first trip to Africa in 1998 - a trip that they both acknowledge changed their lives and gave considerable meaning to their post-White House years and to the activities of the Clinton Foundation.

— Valerie Plame

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

— Kevin McCarthy