{"quotes":[{"text":"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["africa","beaming","church","den","eradicating-darkness","instead","jesus","light","place","robbers","unfortunately"],"id":3505,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations.","author":"Gossy Ukanwoke","tags":["africa","creativity","education","learning","school"],"id":4192,"author_id":"Gossy+Ukanwoke"},{"text":"The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa?","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["africa","attitude","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":4833,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.","author":"Alexandra Fuller","tags":["africa"],"id":6606,"author_id":"Alexandra+Fuller"},{"text":"Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["africa","african","africans","darkness","electricity","guardian","help","lack-of-electricity","light","moon","mothernature","nature","night","no_electricity","provide","sky"],"id":7823,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.","author":"Karl Pilkington","tags":["pet","animals","africa "],"id":11509,"author_id":"Karl+Pilkington"},{"text":"Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their journey to the twenty-second floor.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":11775,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"Professor Khupe rubbed his hand along the sand dunes of her windswept form. The static charge made her skin feel like the surface of a cactus. He recoiled. How he wished he had gone into the priesthood when he had had the chance. Embracing celibacy was far easier than battling the consequences of shunning it.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":12469,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","behavioral-change","behaviors","constraints","hyenas","malaria","malaria-eradication","mosquito-net","predation","public-health","security","villages"],"id":13251,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":560,"pages":56,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}