I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

I played my first World Cup game against South Africa where I scored 97 runs before being run-out by Jonty Rhodes.

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments that don't really exist anymore.

As soon as President Bush announced PEPFAR at the State of the Union, I had already been working in Africa for about five or six years.

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.