https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica poetic phrases from phenomenal African people en-us 2021-08-07 21:00:49 UTC 2023-01-25 20:12:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1288413891/6b3623e1705e9f07eead6ee68a93c6ec/Logo_jpg.crdownload uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671803883 “It always seems impossible until it's done“ - Nelson Mandela]]> 2021-08-07 21:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671803883 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805019 “No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come“
-African proverb ]]> 2021-08-07 21:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805019 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805162 “Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them“
-Miriam Makeba]]> 2021-08-07 21:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805162 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805252 “You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself“
- Malcolm X ]]> 2021-08-07 21:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805252 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805388 “Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind“
- Kwame Nkrumah]]> 2021-08-07 21:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805388 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805443 “I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valley, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land“
- Thabo Mbeki ]]> 2021-08-07 21:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805443 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805500 “It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference“
- Wangari Maathai ]]> 2021-08-07 21:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805500 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805719 “I will raise my head high wherever I go because of my African pride, and nobody will take that away from me“
- Idowu Koyenikan]]> 2021-08-07 21:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805719 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805842 “Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You’re caged in. You’re always battling to make your hair do what it wasn’t meant to do“
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]]> 2021-08-07 21:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671805842 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806222 “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism“ - Wole Soyinka
(Wole Soyinka is the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature)]]> 2021-08-07 21:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806222 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806512 “I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me“
- Kwame Nkrumah ]]> 2021-08-07 21:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806512 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806658 “Ubuntu is the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks about our interconnectedness. That you cannot exist as a human being in isolation“
- Desmond Tutu]]> 2021-08-07 21:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806658 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806746 “Among the Igbo, the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten“
- Chinua Achebe ]]> 2021-08-07 21:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806746 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806908 “One cannot resist the lure of Africa”
- Rudyard Kipling ]]> 2021-08-07 21:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671806908 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808260 “We’re all distant relatives, we all come from one place and that’s Africa“
- Damian Marley ]]> 2021-08-07 21:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808260 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808370 “Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Walhalla, an escapist’s Utopia“
- Beryl Markham ]]> 2021-08-07 21:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808370 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808513 “When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find our that it is the same in all her music“
- Karen Blixen]]> 2021-08-07 21:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808513 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808847 “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together“
- African proverb]]> 2021-08-07 21:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671808847 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671814470 A Resilient Africa]]> 2021-08-07 22:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1671814470 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245075 2021-08-09 19:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245075 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245287 2021-08-09 19:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245287 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245641 2021-08-09 19:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245641 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245867 2021-08-09 19:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673245867 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673246686 2021-08-09 19:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673246686 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673253787 2021-08-09 19:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673253787 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673257591 2021-08-09 19:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673257591 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673258987 2021-08-09 19:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673258987 uwcafricaweek https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673259901 2021-08-09 19:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/uwcafricaweek/resilientafrica/wish/1673259901