The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
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Related The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w... JARED DIAMOND When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South A... MALCOLM X If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to ma... BILL GATES It's a fascinating project. It's fascinating because it will broaden people's understanding about th... JAN PERRY This is how to understand America. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on t... LONNIE BUNCH [I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calli... JOHN MCWHORTER From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer... NELSON MANDELA Anything that happens in Chad or affects it has repercussions for Central African Republic. FRANCOIS BOZIZE African agriculture depends on labor. You can't produce crops if there is nobody to work on the farm... ANNMARIE KORMAWA Our destinies are absolutely intertwined. Africa is absolutely fundamental for the South African eco... ALEC ERWIN The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of edu... OLIVER TAMBO The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central Africa... MICHAEL JOHNS We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the Afr... PRATIBHA PATIL The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' w... ATHOL FUGARD The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF In all these major cities, the police were all white, a big part of them living outside the central ... FRED HARRIS This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Afr... HELEN SUZMAN African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr... ROBERT HALL The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gestu... JAMAL MOHAMED IBRAHIM African farmers need guaranteed markets for their farm produce SOTONYE ANGA In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. PAUL ROBESON If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur f... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nati... IDOWU KOYENIKAN My son is in love with Africa , so he has been asking for an African brother or sister . ANGELINA JOLIE Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a co... WILBUR SMITH We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic ... HARRY ALFORD I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to de... RASHID JOHNSON This is our first joint project with Mocoh since a recent agreement for co-operation in African expl... BRIAN HALL A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 ... CLIVE JAMES South African investors have been all over Africa ... but they haven't been here. They are probably ... VICTOR ANGELO African-American history is American history. JOYCE WILLIAMS In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, b... OLIVER TAMBO Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for... DOUG YOUNG I am a South African game changer. MITTA XININDLU This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certa... LEILA ZERROUGUI I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that... YAYA TOURE In addition we have the cream of South African industry who are involved in the project. MATTHIAS MITSCHERLICH I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals ... ATHOL FUGARD The speed with which mobile is growing is changing the African continent. VANESSA GRAY There's a three-way struggle or contest going on with the Central Asian republics, involving Russia,... GLEN BARCLAY I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr... MIRIAM MAKEBA I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr... MIRIAM MAKEBA When farmers have guaranteed market and earn more for their crops, they will be encouraged to grow m... SOTONYE ANGA These textbooks will be created in Africa so they will represent the unique experiences of African s... LAURA BUSH I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies ... WADAH KHANFAR The agreement will help Central African countries cooperate across borders in protected areas manage... CLAUDE MARTIN a major victory for the South African government -- and the rest of the continent -- over the drugs ... CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just a... IDOWU KOYENIKAN They have to start changing the minds of the South African fans now for the 2010 World Cup. IRVIN KHOZA I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, ev... ALISON NORDSTROM That's because the South African way of doing it is to give yourself advice. WIELAND GEVERS You have to think of Latin food as a couple of culinary superpowers: the Caribbean-African influence... AARON SANCHEZ There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicag... MARK KIRK We have several options to get into the South African market. HUNG SONG Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people. RICHARD ATTIAS We will also rally the international community and the South African government. ALEX LANGWENYA This is living proof that there is an audience for South African film. EDDIE MBALO A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turk... BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the Africa... MELES ZENAWI The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. OMAR BONGO It?s good because the kids get an appreciation for African-American history. COY PILSON The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's... TAMMY DUCKWORTH I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood. TAMARA TUNIE I don't think I'll be looking at any video of South African hitters to get ready for the game. ERIK BEDARD As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of Wes... ABDOULAYE WADE I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African ... LIEV SCHREIBER We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African... FATOU BENSOUDA The South African government cannot support the army pre-empting the election outcome. 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Africa, your people cries for you! Afr... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We want them to come here to interact by all sectors of South African society. AZIZ PAHAD African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splinterin... GEORGE AYITTEY I find it encouraging that this year, the tenth of commercial cultivation, five European member stat... SIMON BARBER When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show ... EUZHAN PALCY I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction. DAMON GALGUT In effect, this fine tells the world that there is a very cheap price to be paid for rape of South A... MIKE WATERS Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs th... MUNIA KHAN The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legi... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the anim... NORMAN BORLAUG [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ... EARL GRAVES I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH The paradigm of our current situation remains: the consumer prices also on imported goods stay high ... CHIEF JUSTUS GAROëB The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o... NICK TURSE An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African... GEORGE CRUMB The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early... HENRY LOUIS GATES We've got the South African teams now, in a row, and we just can't give the South Africans that much... 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