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Africa is NOT poor, but poorly managed.
Africa Poor Poorly managed
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
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No African girl will choose six packs over six cars. So my sons stop the gym and work hard.

African Girl Gym Hard
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I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

African Respect Relationship Great
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If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!

African Body Colour Good
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If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were.

Africa Around China Convinced
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In Africa, the only warning they take seriously is ‘low battery’.

Africa Only Warning Low
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It’s hard to bewitch an African lady these days. Every time you take a piece of her hair to the witch doctor, either a Brazilian innocent woman gets mad or a factory in China catches fire.

Hard African Lady Time
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I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.

African Apart Feed Feeling
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When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

About Africa Artist Everything
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Africa Best Ever Principles
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

Across African Anything Artists
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The only obstacle between young Africans and the world they dream of is their courage to have the audacity to build it.

Obstacle Young Dream Build
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Afford African Believe Afford
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

Young Stop Killed African
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African problems should have African solutions.

African Problems Solutions Race
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I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

Identify Africa Must Identity
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You cannot sing African music in proper English
Sing Music Africa Proper
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The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community.

Big Sound Music Community
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A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

Beggar Africa Solve Problem
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Affliction African Communities Fault
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Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I’m achieving some level of financial comfort here.

Today Comfort Financial Work
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The best way to help Africans today is to help them stand on their feet. And the best way to do that is by creating jobs.

Best Help Feet Creating
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Those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So, if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

Forever Miss Boat Africa
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I’m an African optimist. That doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated by the obstacles I face, but I see those things as opportunities.

African Mean Obstacles Those
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The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

Economic Possible Mentally Political
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Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

Africa Difficult Even Getting
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You have good footballers coming out of Africa, West Africa, but they are not on the level that Eto'o played.

Africa Coming Footballers Good
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We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same time, we take the kids to other countries for operations. The goal of the foundation is to build our own cardiac hospitals in Africa, starting in Nigeria.

Africa Build Countries Educate
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Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.
Africa Build Countries Dream
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I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa.

Africa Awareness Children Create
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A talented footballer comes over, his family depends on him, and if his agent or club don't treat him well, he might not succeed, and then he feels he's let everyone down. For years, African players have been exploited.

African Agent Been Club
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I believe the more you come to Europe, it makes you a better player, and it gives them an advantage because the African style is different from the European style.

Advantage African Because Believe
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The African continent is moving into a new stage of growth and development. It offers tremendous opportunities for those willing to take the risk.

Risk Stage Moving African
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Nigeria is a great footballing nation and deserves to assume her rightful place in Africa and world football and I am keen to be part of a team that achieves this goal.

Achieves Africa Assume Deserves
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Africa America Ancestors Been
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Africa Bible Closed Eyes
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Abundant Africa Cheap Favor
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Across Africa Appeal Countries
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Africa Blessing Like Man
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

African Case Church Community
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