When I left South Africa there were 10 million people - when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.
I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.
I've been to North Africa many times.