Book description
The African continent is home to spectacularly expressive human beings:
rebellious anti-colonial and opposition leaders, eloquent novelists,
political and social activists, comical geniuses, pensive and
philosophical poets and intellectuals, as well as a few raving
dictators. And the body of proverbial wisdom from Africa alone could
fill many volumes. Despite being eminently quotable, Africa is not so
readily quoted.
Stewart's Quotable Africa
covers the whole of Africa - north to south and east to west - and
includes memorable statements from hundreds of speakers including Nelson
Mandela, Doris Lessing, Chinua Achebe, Julius Nyerere, Kofi Annan among
others, as well as biblical passages and proverbs. Julia Stewart has
spent over a decade collecting the 5000 plus quotes found in this book,
all of them either by Africans or about African subjects.
