Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.