Africa · Skopia

Books

6

Out of Africa

1937★ 6.5

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

1998★ 5.8

Africa

1997★ 5.8

West with the Night

1942★ 5.6

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

1885★ 5.3

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013★ 5.2

Quotes

3

The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms.

Facing Mount Kenya · 1938

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

There is always something new out of Africa.

Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia · 77

★ 2.2

Film · Documentary (film) · Sports (film) · Sports

Yeah, Africa's my home. Damn America and what America thinks. Yeah, I live in America; but, Africa's the home of the black man. And I was a slave 400 years ago and I'm going back home to fight among my brothers. Yeah!

When We Were Kings · 1996

★ 2.1

Songs

2

Africa

1982★ 7.4

We Are the WorldUSA for Africa

We Are the World

1985★ 4.8