“It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.”

“It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.”

“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”

“There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare, is on the move. ('Emerging Africa', 2010)”

“Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.”

“Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?”