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"There'a a nice thing about 1/2 hour because an adult life expectancy is 55 to 60 years... is actually a million 1/2 hours. A million 1/2 hours is 57 years. So you have got, not all of you... some of you have got a million 1/2 hours to fritter away."

"We both saw a sista in one another and from there we have shared much in our careers of knowledge building and teaching, and in our acts of rebellion against all forms of oppression."

"Both of us were children of resisters, human rights defenders and change makers."

"Efforts to promote gender equity in labour markets and income generating activities as well as the support for decent employment initiatives in rural areas were hampered by the lack of comprehensive information on the multiple dimensions of social and gender inequalities."

"She said inadequate data on gender sensitive indicators had been a serious impediment to understanding the phenomenon, making informed policy decisions which would necessitate the drive to improve statistical systems and ensure the full mainstreaming of gender into data production, analysis and dissemination."

"There was the need to introduce innovative programmes that would focus on rural areas and farming communities for the rural folks to get access to credit and savings, affordable public and private mechanisms which could provide access to land, markets, seeds, fertilisers and machinery."

"I urge policy makers to recognise women’s high participation in non-agricultural self-employment activities as an opportunity to increase rural employment and access to economic resources in strengthening a collective action especially within women groups."

"When Kenya’s history is fully documented and shared between the people, we will be surprised at how similar were the risks we all took in various parts of the country to liberate ourselves from the colonial yoke."

"Mĩcere demonstrated that Black African girls were capable of learning, taking leadership and winning in a multiracial setting."

"Non-food inflation rate of 24.1 percent is about four times as high as the food inflation rate of 5.8 percent."

"The country’s unadjusted GDP growth decelerated to 5.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, sharply down from a revised 10.8 percent in the same period last year."

"But despite contraction in several sectors, some as a result of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the 2014 growth forecast, while down on 2013, still puts Ghana well above the IMF forecast for sub-Saharan African growth of 5.1 percent. Ghana, which exports gold, oil and cocoa, has been hard hit in the hospitality sector."

"Rural men and women lack decent work opportunities. Women in particular face greater difficulties in transforming their labour into more productive employment activities and their paid work into higher and more secured incomes."

"In the whole history of Mathematics, there has been no more revolutionary step than the one which the Indian made when they invented the sign ‘0’ for the empty column of the counting frame."

"All the algorithms for fractions now used were invented by the Hindus. The Greek treatment of fractions never advanced beyond the level of the Egyptian Rhind papyrus. […] This inability to treat a fraction as a number on its own merits is the explanation of a practice [which] was as useless as it was ambiguous. […] When we remember that the Greeks and Alexandrians continued this extraordinary performance, there is nothing remarkable about the small progress which they achieved in their arithmetic. What is remarkable is that a few of them like Archimedes should have discovered anything at all about series of numbers involving fractional quantities."

"‘The change did not come about without obstruction from the representatives of custom thought. An edict of A.D. 1259 forbade the bankers of Florence to use the infidel symbols, and the ecclesiastical authorities of the University of Padua in A.D. 1348 ordered that the price list of books should be prepared not in “ciphers”, but in plain letters.’"

"The difficulty of understanding why it should have been the Hindus who took this step, why it was not taken by the mathematicians of antiquity, why it should first have been taken by practical man, is only insuperable if we seek for the explanation of intellectual progress in the genius of a few gifted individuals, instead of in the whole social framework of custom thought which circumscribes the greatest individual genius. What happened in India about AD 100 had happened before. May be it is happening now in Soviet Russia…. To accept it (this truth) is to recognise that every culture contains within itself its own doom, unless it pays as much attention to the education of the mass of mankind as to the education of the exceptionally gifted people.’"

"This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly."

"... the entry ‘Saraswati (Sarsuti)’, defined as a ‘sacred river of the Punjab, famous in the early Brahmanical annals’. We learn that the river rises ‘in the low hills of Sirmur State, emerges upon the plain at Zadh Budri [Ad Badri], a place esteemed sacred by all Hindus’, and, before joining the Ghaggar, ‘passes by the holy town of Thanesar and the numerous shrines of the Kuruksetra, a tract celebrated as a centre of pilgrimages, and as the scene of the battle-fields of the Mahabharatha’. The Gazetteer repeats, ‘In ancient times, the united stream below the point of junction appears to have borne the name of Sarsuti, and, undiminished by irrigation near the hills, to have flowed across the Rajputana plains . . .’ ‘Some of the earliest Aryan settlements in India were on the banks of the Saraswati, and the surrounding country has from almost Vedic times been held in high veneration. The Hindus identify the river with Saraswati, the Sanskrit Goddess of Speech and Learning.’"

"‘In ancient times the lower portion of the river seems to have borne the name of its confluent the Saraswati or Sarsuti, which joins the main stream in Patiala territory. It then possessed the dimensions of an important channel . . . At present, however, every village through which the stream passes has diverted a portion of its waters for irrigation, no less than 10,000 acres being supplied from this source in Ambala District alone . . . During the lower portion of its course, in Sirsa District, the bed of the Ghaggar is dry from November to June, affording a cultivable surface for rich crops of rice and wheat.’"

"‘In the year A.D. 1000 it [the Sutlej] was a tributary of the Hakra, and flowed in the Eastern Nara . . . Thus the Sutlej or the Hakra—for both streams flowed in the same bed—is probably the lost river of the Indian desert, whose waters made the sands of Bikaner and Sind a smiling garden.’"

"Upon our annexation of the Punjab the fanatic fury, which had formerly spent itself upon the Sikhs, was transferred to their successors. Hindus and English were alike infidels in the eyes of the Sittana Host, and as such were to be exterminated by the sword. The disorders as ‘ which we had connived at, or at least viewed with indifference, upon the Sikh frontier, now descended as a bitter inheritance to ourselves, Their followers were found preaching sedition in different parts of the country so far apart as Rajshahiin Bengal, Patna in Bihar and the Punjab frontier. Throughout the whole period the fanatics kept the border tribes in a state of chronic hostility to the British Power."

"Religion and philosophy have been the great contributions of India to the world."

"The grammar of Panini stands supreme among the grammars of the world, alike for its precision of statement, and for its thorough analysis of the roots of the language and of the formative principles of words. By employing an algebraic terminology it attains a sharp succinctness unrivalled in brevity, but at times enigmatical. It arranges, in logical harmony, the whole phenomena, which the Sanskrit language presents, and stands forth as one of the most splendid achievements of human invention and industry. So elaborate is the structure that doubts have arisen whether its complex rules offormation and phonetic change, its polysyllabic derivatives, its ten conjugations with1heir multiform aorists and long array of tenses, could ever have been the spoken language of a people." 29"

"Scholarship is warmed with the holy flame of Christian zeal."

"To the aboriginal races alone can we appear in the light of friends and deliverers. They have yet to start on the path of progress. It remains for us to decide whether that path is to lead them to Hinduism, or to the purer faith and civilisation which we represent."

"The whole conception of Islam is that of a church either actively militant or conclusively triumphant forcibly converting the world, or ruling the stiff-necked unbeliever with a rod of iron."

"The Hindus attained a very high proficiency in arithmetic and algebra independently of any foreign influence." The romance of the composition of Lilavati - the standard Hindu textbook on Arithmetic by Bhaskaracharya - is very interesting and charming. It deals not only with the basic elements of the science of arithmetic but also with questions of interest, of barter, ofpermutatlOns and combinations, and of mensuration. Bhaskaracharya knew the law of gravitation. The Surya Siddhanta is based on a system of trigonometry. Professor Wallace says: "In fact it is founded on a geometrical theorem, which was not known to the geometricians of Europe before the time of Vieta, about two hundred years ago. And it employs the sine of arcs, a thing unknown to the Greeks." The 47th proposition of Book I of Euclid, which is ascribed to Pythagoras was known long ago to the Hindus and must have been learnt from them by Pythagoras."

"Our gesture today intends to remind you that we are there, and we really care because we are concerned with your situation after the Genocide.(Igikorwa twakoze uyu munsi kigamije kubibutsa ko turi kumwe namwe, kandi tubitayeho kuko dufite impuhwe n’uruhare mu gukemura bibazo mwahuye nabyo nyuma ya Jenoside.)"

"Bank of Kigali elevates workplace inclusivity with launch of ‘Mother’s Room’"

"Breastfeeding is nurturing life. At BK, we aspire to lead the way in fostering an inclusive environment for our employees."

"Leading means rallying people around a vision, clarity of visions it needs to be crystal clear, you need to be consistent the world has so many distractions. Stick to your vision and make sure people understand it.(Kuyobora bisobanura guhuriza abantu ku cyerekezo kimwe. Icyo cyerekezo kigomba kuba kigaragara neza, gisobanutse. Ugomba kugumana umurongo umwe kuko isi yuzuyemo ibintu byinshi bitatanya abantu. Hagarara ku cyerekezo cyawe, kandi umenye ko abantu bakizi kandi bagisobanukiwe.)"

"Dr Diane Karusisi, CEO of Bank of Kigali and BK Group boss Uzziel Ndagijimana during the presentation of the resultsThe New Times,August 29,2025."

"This championship is more than a race; it’s a moment where Rwanda’s spirit and Africa’s resilience take the spotlight. Hosting the UCI Road World Championships here shows how far we’ve come, both as a nation and a continent, in shaping our own stories on the world stage."

"We need people to be ambitious to be to go out of the comfort zone and start businesses and try to grow in whatever they're doing, so they can have more impact for themselves but also on the communities."

"Through our investments in BK Arena, BAL, and now the UCI Road World Championships, we’re contributing to Rwanda’s growing reputation as a hub for talent and international events.She added that the bank sees this kind of support as a long-term investment in the future of Rwanda."

"We will be reporting the loans given by the bank and their results on livelihoods, jobs, and exports. As part of our Sustainability Report, we also show how the business we do is promoting better gender balance and equity."

"I believe we have a very strong government. I believe that we have historic opportunity as Rwandans. A lot of great things are happening here;showing that it’s possible to transform Africa into a better place for Africans.(Nizeye ko dufite ubuyobozi bukomeye cyane. Nizeye ko dufite amahirwe y’ amateka nk’Abanyarwanda. Hari ibintu byinshi byiza biri kubera hano bigaragaza ko bishoboka guhindura Afurika ahantu heza kurusha ho ku Banyafurika.)"

"Bank of Kigali CEO Diane Karusisi took part in a major moment at the UCI Road World Championships 2025 by awarding the winner of the men's Junior Individual Time Trial U23 by The New Times.Tuesday,September 23,2025."

"These numbers only tell part of the story. What excites us most is the impact behind those numbers. Our commitment is to keep building a bank that grows together with Rwanda."

"It melts my heart to be here. I see great people;great leaders; I see the future for Bank of Kigali. Our challenge now is to keep you inspired, dreamming, creating, and developing because that is how we can shape the future."

"BK Academy: Building Rwanda’s Future Financial Human Capital;CEO Diane Karusisi.October 20,2023.https://www.ktpress.rw/2023/10/bk-academy-building-rwandas-future-financial-human-capital-ceo-diane-karusisi"

"Bank of Kigali elevates workplace inclusivity with launch of ‘Mother’s Room’Africa Press-Rwanda.2023-10-15."

"It has been a journey marked by the pursuit of gender equality, and today marks just one of the many milestones along this path. Moving forward, as we renovate our branches, we are committed to ensuring that every branch includes a mother’s room."

"Investing in women entrepreneurs is not just a moral imperative; it is a smart business strategy that unlocks untapped potential and drives progress across the society."

"I am both encouraged and challenged by the resilience and determination of women entrepreneurs in a male dominated world."

"I never expected to experience the embarrassement of a failed transaction on my own card. But there i was, unable to withdraw cash from an ATM machine because my card had expired."

"It is innovation that fuels business growth, and keeps the global economy on the move."

"Skills are also important, it is not only about leadership."

"I recognise the importance of investing in women entrepreneurs as a smart business move."