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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Africa Dying Front House
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Adolescent Africa Because Books
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.

Acknowledge Africa Capable Community
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Africa Been Broad Etc
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

African Fear General Know
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Africa Any Difference Ideas
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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

African-American Because Ear Greater
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

African-American Assume Bad Bad Situation
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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

African African American American Class
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In Sub Saharan Africa, a disciplined man is seen as wicked. A man with low self esteem is seen as humble. A confident man with adequate self esteem is seen as proud. A friendly girl is considered a flirt or lose.

Disciplined Humble Proud Confident
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Love Meet Sing Mountain
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If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Africa Bob Bob Marley Climb
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Africa Because Creditors Investors
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

African Bowl Crucial Cut
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
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As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

Africa Citizen Country Got
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We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

About African Also Crazy
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Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Africa Centuries Dominance European
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My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Africa Constitution Diversity Gray
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We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

Africa Capital Entrenched History
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The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

Africa Centuries Decades Economy
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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Africa Am Better Better Life
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

There Is More Apartheid
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

You Can't Hate Root
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

African Always Ant Begins
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Africa has no future.
Africa Future NoFuture
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

Nas
African Black Everyone White
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Nas
Africa Been Going Has Been
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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Purge yourself of hate. I'm not just a journalist but an African Leader. If that gets you angry, live with that FACT!

Hate African Angry Journalist
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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I am the hero of Africa.
Africa Am Hero I Am
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
African Hold Our Shape
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No matter where I am or what I do, I am proudly AFRICAN

No matter Where Proudly African
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There is nothing like African standard, you must embrace the global standard.

African standard Embrace You Global standard
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

I Was Raised Father
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Africa; When the Gates gives us money, we fall over each other and collect; When they tell us the home truth, we get angry.

Africa Gates Money Truth
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If prosperity came by prayer, Africa will be the richest continent and Europe will be the poorest

Prosperity Prayer Richest Africa
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