It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.