You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.