“I have slipped out of Africa for a breath of time.”
“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)”
“There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.”
“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
“In Africa, if you are an hour late, you are right on time.”
“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”