Zeinab Badawi

Quotes

• “There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today.”
• “Achebe gave a voice to Africans for generations to come, including my own.”
• “If situations arise where people feel that they have grievances, such grievances should be dealt with in the appropriate way with full transparency, using all the proper governance structures at hand.”
• “If you are always guided by passion and compassion, you will truly have a life of meaning.”
• “For a long time it was the view that because Africa didn't always write, or have written document for his history that means Africa didn’t document its history. That is not true”
• “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head”

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