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.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.