"I must disagree with you, when yopu say we do not have time, time is the greatest liberator and the only thing which we have, time always bring about changes and we have so much of it, time is much more longer then any length of rope that you can think of. Time is really what we have as our defence and we have lots of it"

Sounds very patronising and insensitive to the plight of people who actually live in Africa and have first hand hand experience of the situation.

I am hoping this is not what you meant, but it came accross to me like, "Africa should burn now, it will be over by 6.45 p.m. Meanwhile, let's have a smoke, shall we?"