When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.
Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. " [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.
Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People. '