I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

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

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

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

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.

Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.