20 Quotes about Africa
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2. "If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa." - John Hemingway, American Author
3. "The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.” - Rich Mullins
4. "Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home.” - Beryl Markham
5.“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.”- Ernest Hemingway
6. "How can I explain to you my friend what I have seen and felt unless you too have seen it all… Africa."- Michael Burke
7. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you’re leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.” - Francesca Marciano
8. "If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. “It’s really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else but lives in Africa.”- Will Smith
10. "To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.” - George Schaller.
11. "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
12. “For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by Africa, by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colours of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.” -Henry Louis Gates
13. “Having travelled to some African countries, I find myself, like so many visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Rather I am referring to the African people.” - Dennis Prager
14. If you only visit two continents in your lifetime, visit Africa – twice!” - R. Elliot
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. “I hope you have an experience that alters the course of your life because, after Africa, nothing has ever been the same.” - Suzanne Evans
17. “Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” - J. Nozipo Maraire
18. “Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don’t." - Paul Theroux
19. “For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.”
20. "The beauty of Africa is incomparable, it shows up in her endless reservoir of nature, shows up in the beauty of her women - there is something about the distinctiveness of their beauty, their lips, the hips, oh the African woman, knows how to be a woman!" - JM
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