Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.