African Authors Quotes

Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Light is life and always wins.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Sow the right words! Think the good thought.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Life is beautiful if you take the best option.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Have the best course for all your actions.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Sow good seeds for a good yield.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Shine forth your light before all beings.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Relish what is good and expedient.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens.Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

The night was so balmy that breathing ceased to be a habitual sensation, becoming much closer to something like the gaseous ingestion of a mango, the velvet caress of a hand or the soft skin of a fresh peach. Sleeping, lying down or sitting up, was, on that night, a divine human penitence, a miracle unexpected and unrealized, intuitive and peaceful in a unique opportunity.

~ Ondjaki

In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

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.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

At one level the story of the second fall of Zimbabwe can be read as tragic yet a courageous one: a simple but soaring binary about unfounded courage in the face of immeasurable oppression. But at another level, it is a window into a much more complex, perhaps even darker and sadder, narrative about contemporary slaveship and the terrible collision of aspiration and frustration and the need to survive that has been unleashed upon the people of Zimbabwe. Exploitation and oppression are not matters of race.

~ Thabo Katlholo

As an ancient cradle of Iron Age civilization, Zimbabwe has a great emotional importance to the economy of Southern Africa and that's especially true for Botswana since both countries are landlocked. Harare was the site of some historic scenes and the best trade regimes, and it is where generations of Southern African children have gone for their education. Bulawayo was a trade giant amongst the people of the north – the Bakalanga, the Venda and the Shona. Now brick-by-brick the empire was facing a second fall after the last fall of the Great Zimbabwe.

~ Thabo Katlholo