Quotes

'Whether Egypt takes the case to international bodies or threatens to go for a war, no force can stop us from using our own water resource.'

– Ethiopia’s  Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which is nearly complete. 

'It’s not only shocking but it’s also embarrassing. It looks like a platform for particular authors. A platform for friends. There is an undertone of patriarchy, and undertone of racism, of a status quo that does not want to change. There is no democracy in it. It looks as if only white people should be judging literature, as if they are the custodians of taste.'

– Author Niq Mhlongo after Media24 Books came under fire for a lack of diversity after awarding all six of its 2020 awards to white authors.