A wise man once said “all men are from Africa” and I tend to agree with him. To me, Africa is another word for home, family and friendship. Let this 25 powerful quotes about Africa inspires you to visit Africa.
Here are top 25 Powerful Quotes About Africa
Top 25 Powerful Quotes About Africa
1. Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them. – Miriam Makeba
2 . The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa, for he has so much to look forward to – Richard Mullin
3. It’s really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa – Will Smith
4. You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself – Malcolm X
5. There is always something new out of Africa – Pliny the Elder
6. You cannot leave Africa. It is always with you, there inside your head – Bridget Dore
7. I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy – Ernest Hemingway
8. I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me – Kwame Nkrumah
9. Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth – John Clarke
10. If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa. – John Hemingway
11. Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same – Brian Jackman
12. The biggest lesson from Africa was that life’s joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. – Andrew Shue
13. Nothing but breathing the air of Africa, and actually walking through it, can communicate the indescribable sensations – William Burchell
14. One cannot resist the lure of Africa – Rudyard Kipling
15. All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already. – Ernest Hemingway
16. The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it – George Kimble
17. Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world – Marcus Garvey
18. With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It’s no different for the human race. – Mohammed Maktoum
19. 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 – A.A. Gill
20. I believe there is no sickness of the heart too great it cannot be cured by a dose of Africa – John Hemingway
21. Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated – James Shikwati
22. We are all children of Africa, and none of us is better or more important than the other. This is what Africa could say to the world: it could remind it what it is to be human -Alexander McCall Smith
23. You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept. You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite – Ali Mazrui
24. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, amongst other creatures, in a large landscape – Doris Lessing
25. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you’re leaving state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence – Francesca Marciano