Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland! Africa, your people cries for you! Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to its people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberate your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

African leaders must desire to liberate it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of voicelessness.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.

— Itohan Eghide

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I am an African. I am white. Furthermore, I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

— Nadine Gordimer

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities in regard to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!

— Israelmore Ayivor