I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.
I am proud to be an African.
I am an African and I am very proud of that.
I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
I am the hero of Africa.
Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.