Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base.
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
Cash is king in Africa.
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
There is no intrinsic reason African countries should be importing, rather than exporting, basic staples like rice or higher value products like frozen chicken, cooking oil, or instant noodles.
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.
United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.
Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed.
Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.
Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.
My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
