People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you’re from Nigeria, then you’re the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
There are multiple levels of ‘we’ and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I feel like it’s not Africans who are afraid of China’s rise in Africa. It’s the West that’s afraid of China’s rise in Africa. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver Tambos or the people there who came together after… both during apartheid and afterwards to create and structure their society. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
The images that we see of Africa are so… that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible – like hell on earth. And that doesn’t acknowledge the positive things – the many, many, many positive things – that people are doing. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
People don’t talk about the amount of destruction in terms of human lives that happen, whether it’s through slavery, or through, for example, what Belgium was doing in the Congo – the fragmentation of society that happened after that destruction of human life. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don’t know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That’s just my own personal philosophy. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
