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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

— Richard Leakey

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✓Similar Perspectives

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

— Maya Angelou

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.

— Akon

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

— Richard Leakey

There is always something new out of Africa.

— Pliny the Elder

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Matthew McConaughey

I've been to North Africa many times.

— Martin Scorsese

Africa is a very dangerous place.

— Janine di Giovanni

✗Opposing Perspectives

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

— John Hanning Speke

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

— V. S. Naipaul