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.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

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.

If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

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.