Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.