Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.