The Voice of Africa


Youssou N'Dour

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Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.
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Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "devel...
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Life's irony;The West embrace homosexuality & lesbianism,but detest polygamy,but Africa embrace poly...
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To the best of our knowledge, we are the first industry to talk with one voice for Africa from Cape ...
JACK KIPLING
The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group,...
HAILE SELASSIE
The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall ...
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Beautifying the campus and designing a new advising system among other initiatives since [Chancellor...
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Heart makes a crackling, hissed but demanding tone each time it breaks with pain, listen to that att...
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
DESMOND TUTU
It is shameful that Erwin should make such an announcement at an international conference before con...
EARTHLIFE AFRICA
Either way, we will surely remain in the dark for some time to come.
EARTHLIFE AFRICA
The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other ...
JOHN PAUL WARREN
One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Ap...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love th...
ALAN PATON
Have you a room that you could let?"
"Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to...
ALAN PATON
‎"You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way.
JOHN PAUL WARREN
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will...
ED ROYCE
Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
EARTHA KITT
I am the hero of Africa.
IDI AMIN
I am the hero of Africa.
IDI AMIN DADA
His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too l...
JAEL MCHENRY
I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
PARIS HILTON
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the v...
ALICE OSWALD
Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
JULIET SIMMS
Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the dep...
CHRIS JOHNS
Travel teaches as much as books.
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone ...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't wan...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can li...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
We want to draw attention to this tragedy. We are going to continue this program to eradicate the sc...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
I know that I'm not Bruce Springsteen, ... But it was a symbolic statement that I wanted to make.
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
If we think about dignity, ... People from north to east and south really want to have dignity, and ...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
My music is like a spinning ball, ... It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to its or...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving the...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing i...
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Your outlook affects your outcome
JOHN PAUL WARREN
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial...
MARCUS GARVEY
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did...
JOHN PRENDERGAST
I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very ...
DONALD EVANS
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of ...
NELSON MANDELA
We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to d...
DAMBISA MOYO
The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
ALFRED LUNT
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, w...
GERRY ADAMS
This locks much of Africa out of the benefits of CDM.
LWAZIKAZI TYANI
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
Africa is the place for Agriculture. Africa have fed the world before and will feed the world again
SOTONYE ANGA
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
ROBERT MUGABE
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by th...
MALCOLM X
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
WILLIAM BLAKE
We have to lend our voice to Christ by speaking on His behalf.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or P...
ARUNDHATI ROY
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures ...
TARIQ RAMADAN
Africa is not just a place; it's a million places. It's a million voices, ... We felt no one photogr...
CHRIS JOHNS
It's a country in Africa, and Africa is a continent for Kenya.
JAMES JORDAN
You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nati...
IDOWU KOYENIKAN
Africa! Africa! Africa!
Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Afr...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
ED ROYCE
Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs th...
MUNIA KHAN
This will be one of the major buildings in Africa.
ABDOULAYE BALDE
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
OLIVER TAMBO
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to m...
BENJAMIN KOFI QUANSAH
Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relati...
JOHN PAUL WARREN
The case of Mr Habre constitutes a symbol of impunity in Africa.
BOUCOUNTA DIALLO
The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
JOHN PAUL WARREN
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
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