{"quotes":[{"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":"Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phrase from D.H. Lawrence, and to immerse Jewishness in other and wider struggles. Indeed, the old canard about 'rootless cosmopolitanism' finds a perverse sort of endorsement in Jewish internationalism: the more emphatically somebody stresses that sort of rhetoric about the suffering of others, the more likely I would be to assume that the speaker was a Jew. Does this mean that I think there are Jewish 'characteristics'? Yes, I think it must mean that.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["africa","africans","compassion","dh-lawrence","empathy","europeans","internationalism","jewish-question","jews","marxism","mathilde-verne","plantations","prison","race","racism","rootless-cosmopolitanism","rosa-luxemburg","suffering","victims"],"id":34952,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","africans","cities-and-countries","citizen","citizen-of-the-world","citizens","citizens-of-humanity","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","collaborate","collaborations","college-life","combat","combat-diseases","cooperation","cooperation-s","disease","disease-prevention","diseases","ebola","ebola-disease","ebola-in-africa","ebola-in-central-africa","ebola-in-spain","ebola-in-usa","ebola-in-west-africa","ebola-origin","ebola-spread","ebola-victims","ebola-virus","educate","educate-children","educate-people","educate-the-youth-of-africa","educate-women","educated","educated-people","education","education-system","educational-philosophy","educational","educação","help","helpers","helpful","helping-hand","helping-mankind","helping-others","helping-out","helping-the-needy","helping-the-poor","international","international-","international-community","international-development","international-law","international-relations","prevent","prevent-it","preventative-medicine","preventing","prevention","prevention-is-better-than-cure","prevention-of-diseases-in-africa","prevention-of-ebola","supporting","supporting-family","supporting-others","supportive-actions","supportive","virus","west-africa"],"id":37719,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.","author":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","tags":["africans","americans","choice"],"id":63916,"author_id":"Chimamanda+Ngozi+Adichie"},{"text":"You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["africa","africa-house","africa-leaders","africa-people","africa","africa-s-predicament","africa-s-wealth","africa-will-shake","african","african-","african-believes","african-citizens","african-continent","african-cultural","african-culture","african-cup-of-nations","african-descent","african-development","african-development-bank","african-dictators","african-fiction","african-freethinker","african-great-healer","african-great-lakes","african-healer","african-juju","african-languages","african-leaders","african-literature","african-my-motherland","african-national-congress","african-people","african-proverb","african","african-safari","african-saying","african-socialism","african-story-telling","african-traditional-healer","african-union","african-woman","african-women","african-writer","africana","africana-studies","africans","china-achebe","desmond-tutu","kofi-annan","kwame-nkrumah","nelson-mandela","tribal","tribalism","tribe","tribes"],"id":79987,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"Africans must change their mind and actions.The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","african","african-american-literature","african-","african-leaders","africans","continent","continents","persistent","persistent-action","persistent-actions","persistent-attitude","persistent-effort","will-power"],"id":114886,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.","author":"Valerie Owens","tags":["adventure","africa","african-american-women","african-americans","africans","homelessness","human-trafficking","nigeria","nonfiction","social-conditions","temple-university-student","travel","travel-adventure","true-story"],"id":126334,"author_id":"Valerie+Owens"},{"text":"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["africa","africans","amorous","apartheid","attraction","black-people","color","common-sense","face","falling-in-love","fancy","human-beings","intelligence","knowledge","liking","love","memories","memory","michael-bassey-johnson","nigerians","race","wisdom","wise","wise-men","wise-people"],"id":168787,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before they get to know me.What they do not know isThe pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.So you think I am nothing?Don’t worry about what I am now,For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.I will raise my head high wherever I goBecause of my African pride,And nobody will take that away from me.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["africa","africa-herbalist","africa-house","africa-leaders","africa-people","africa","africa-s-predicament","africa-s-wealth","africa-will-shake","african","african-american","african-american-","african-americans","african-","african-believes","african-citizens","african-continent","african-cultural","african-culture","african-cup-of-nations","african-descent","african-development","african-development-bank","african-dictators","african-fiction","african-freethinker","african-great-healer","african-great-lakes","african-healer","african-juju","african-languages","african-leaders","african-literature","african-my-motherland","african-national-congress","african-people","african-proverb","african","african-safari","african-saying","african-socialism","african-story-telling","african-traditional-healer","african-union","african-voodoo","african-woman","african-women","african-writer","africana","africana-studies","africans","black-america","black-americans","black-book-","black-girl","black-girls-rock","black-history","black-history-month","black-in-america","black-intellectuals","black-is-beautiful","black-literary-classics","black-literature","black-lives-matter","black-queen","black-woman","black-women","blackness","china-achebe","desmond-tutu","kofi-annan","kwame-nkrumah","nelson-mandela"],"id":178507,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.","author":"Itohan Eghide","tags":["africans","africans-unite","alms-giving","blood","bond","bonding","brotherhood","camaraderie","chain","covenant","empathy","everlasting-love","family","family-love","family-relationships","giving","growing","growth","hope","impression","invincible","let-love-lead","love","one","passion","power","reverence","sisterhood","strong","support","tie","ties","togetherness","two","unconditional-love","united","unity"],"id":184241,"author_id":"Itohan+Eghide"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}