Damon Albarn
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives. DAMIAN MARLEY If they produce less, it means that we will have to import more from Africa to satisfy our needs. Th... KARL FALKENBERG People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, amon... ABDULLAH IBRAHIM I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very ... DONALD EVANS This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT PANKAJ MISHRA It's a country in Africa, and Africa is a continent for Kenya. JAMES JORDAN I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tr... JOHN KEEGAN MALCOLM X PAUL THEROUX JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, ... HENRY MORTON STANLEY I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs e... YUSUF HAMIED Africa is the place for Agriculture. Africa have fed the world before and will feed the world again SOTONYE ANGA NICKY OPPENHEIMER To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN The logical place for expansion has always been the rest of Africa. However, exchange control regula... LOYISO JIYA Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will... ED ROYCE In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no... ALEXANDRA FULLER I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies ... WADAH KHANFAR Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flou... BRUCE WILKINSON BEN OKRI GAIL KELLY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON JAMES BALDWIN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Africa is not just a place; it's a million places. It's a million voices, ... We felt no one photogr... CHRIS JOHNS Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the dep... CHRIS JOHNS HUGH MASEKELA NELSON MANDELA JARED DIAMOND In my eye, China is a nation that can always be a friend and partner of Africa. ALPHA OUMAR KONARE In fact, it is going to be the first university that will offer sports scholarships in Africa. LEO MUGABE The shop was going from summer clothes to fall/winter, so other Junior League volunteers helped me s... KAREN CLARK F. W. DE KLERK Maybe that facilitated the willingness of some people to project upon Africa their hopes and desires... CLAUDE CLEGG AMA ATA AIDOO We were shown all the scenarios after the game and we were kind of in awe. A lot of guys thought it ... JOHNNY DAMON EMINEM TAYLOR KITSCH TREVOR NOAH MO IBRAHIM I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here... STEPHEN LEWIS KWAME NKRUMAH Will Brazilian antigambiae measures succeed in Africa? As time goes by it will almost certainly be f... FRED LOWE SOPER [Weather Report, the massively popular and longest-continually-performing fusion band, is often cite... JOE ZAWINUL One can't build prisons and walls in Africa, on our territory. One won't regulate it that way. ALPHA OUMAR KONARE PARIS HILTON Red' will bring a rising income stream ... (and) increased awareness of HIV in Africa and the role o... RICHARD FEACHEM Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j... ART BLAKEY CRAIG GROESCHEL Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any o... HAKEEM OLAJUWON TAYLOR KITSCH JARED DIAMOND Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corner... NGũGĩ WA THIONG'O PAUL THEROUX The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody... WESLEY CLARK It is shameful that Erwin should make such an announcement at an international conference before con... EARTHLIFE AFRICA Either way, we will surely remain in the dark for some time to come. EARTHLIFE AFRICA OLIVER TAMBO JANINE DI GIOVANNI That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve ... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE More critically, the statements that we make can get picked up internationally (and) then feed to th... JOEL NETSHITENZHE It doesn't get really cold in South Africa, so we didn't really prepare for the weather. And we had ... DALE STEWART CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE CHINUA ACHEBE No. It's not coming this way. Our goal is to expose our African artists to the rest of Africa and th... ALEX OKOSI Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.... ART BLAKEY RICK RIORDAN LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times,... CHICK COREA Our species evolved in Africa 200,000 years ago. We didn't move out until 100,000 years ago, and the... CARL ZIMMER A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. BARACK OBAMA DREW BARRYMORE ROBERT MUGABE DESMOND TUTU I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people ... STEPHEN LEWIS F. W. DE KLERK MO IBRAHIM JONI MITCHELL It was tough going. His world was in the grips of the last Ice Age. In Southern Africa it was drier ... DR SPENCER WELLS CRAIG GROESCHEL We have been deliberately surreptitious in our approach, deciding to prove our technology in South A... JUSTIN LAWRENCE RICHARD BRANSON ALICE WALKER CRAIG GROESCHEL Before that I had one day's work in The Bowery Boys Go To Africa. I played Tarzan. The Bowery Boys w... CLINT WALKER WANGARI MAATHAI ROBERT MCCAMMON It can be a bit overwhelming, but it's a great overview of the conversations taking place in and aro... ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it ... MIRA NAIR THABO MBEKI JOHN DONNE C. JOYBELL C. JANE GOODALL
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by th... 
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I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
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