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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.