There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

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.

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

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.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.