When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

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.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Even the Republican Party doesn't have the legs to challenge Hillary Clinton.

People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.