You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
I am an African and I am very proud of that.
Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.