You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.