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Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

I really fell in love with Africa.

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.