African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

Africa is poor because she is not free.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.

To me, comedy is a game.

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

Breath is the power behind all things… I breathe in and know that good things will happen.

I love the interrelatedness of things.