Sentence examples for africans from inspiring English sources

"Osama was much better at placating the various wings of al-Qaida – the Yemenis, Somalis, north Africans.

But for millions of Africans, life without these inventions and the innovations based on them is still their daily reality.

Problem: In 2003, Zane Wilson, the founder of the South African Depression & Anxiety Group (Sadag), the country's largest mental health initiative, was horrified at how suicide rates among young South Africans were spiking.

I recently left Rwanda after six years as minister of agriculture and animal resources and I am now president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) a group that views agriculture – the sector that employs the majority of Africans – as the key to driving sustainable, equitable growth across the continent.

Not since that revolutionary moment two decades ago have South Africans lined up in such numbers as they did on Wednesday to view Mandela – who died last week at 95 – lying in state in the capital, Pretoria.

So I said that while a population boom would create many additional challenges for African governments, especially in the sphere of social services, a huge labour pool also meant opportunities for rapid economic growth, provided enough jobs are created for the millions of young Africans who will soon be of working age.

Africa's economic growth is often described as "jobless" for its failure to create jobs, in particular for the 60% of Africans aged between 15 and 24 who are unemployed and who, a recent report found, have given up on finding work.

Dagan warned the South Africans that accepting the Goldstone report, which accused Israel (and Hamas) of war crimes, would be a "blow to the peace process".

It wasn't cool to be African in those days and in my ignorant teenage way, I was acting out a much bigger crisis of confidence, one that had been swallowing Africans and spitting them out as permanent economic migrants in Europe and America ever since the end of colonialism.

The flight of Africans from their own nations fuelled cartoon-like perceptions of the continent abroad, in which the Economist was far from alone.

Niger has approved a law against the smuggling of migrants in an effort to stem the flow of vulnerable Africans across its vast desert, many of them headed towards Libya and on to Europe.