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"We are going to continue to be a strong impact in the labor market, training young people who can go on to become entrepreneurs and start their own businesses. We are going to help the government understand the potential of innovation and ecommerce, data protections, and help them see that the value chain is important for taxations."

"We hope to have expanded the ecosystem of payment solutions and logistics solutions. We see our role in this as very important. Jumia is not me or the shareholders. It is Ugandan sellers selling to Ugandan customers. I see unlimited potential in that."

"We continue to optimize this for our customers and our vendors and continue to create value for our partners, logistics providers, payment supporters, and everyone within the value chain"

"My faith also teaches me that every human being is created in the image and likeness of God. .. As one moves about his daily work he influences the lives of his brothers. It is his obligation to be certain therefore that his influence contributes always to the salvation of these souls."

"In whatever corner of the world they may find themselves, mathematicians, like all scientists, are bonded together by a universal desire to understand life. Cooperation is natural, it is easy, it is necessary in the all-out effort of science to establish truth […] Science is international rather than national. The scientific exploration of the universe is the right of all men."

"Too many teachers of mathematics distribute their time in exactly the reverse order. Very little time is spent on establishing the truth, but there is great effort to fix it by repetition or use over and over"

"When I started photographing, I did not understand what exactly I want to achieve."

"Mathematics is no more the art of reckoning and computation than architecture is the art of making bricks, no more than painting is the art of mixing colors."

"I have always loved sports, I used to play volleyball for a little and then one coach saw me, he then invited me to a basketball camp, I started playing basketball, I got to love it. I kept doing it and still doing it."

"I’m honored to serve the country once again in the judicial sector. I’m looking forward to working in collaboration with the existing team to offer fair judgment to the population"

"We intentionally are looking to address the access to the capital gap for women in Africa as consumers and entrepreneurs as well as to reduce unemployment in our markets by providing growth capital to underfunded and overlooked companies."

"Generating strong financial returns whilst delivering positive and long-term social impact alongside tangible and measurable women empowerment outcomes. Enabling job creation for underrepresented groups as well as access to capital for overlooked underfunded women in Africa. We are deliberately integrating gender analysis into our investment analysis and decision-making."

"Access to capital for women and people of colour in my view is one of the most important dislocations in the private equity and venture capital industry that needs to be addressed in the next decade."

"There is a huge gap between intention to do impact investing, and the actual action. So I am hoping that this gap closes in the coming decade and that we have institutions putting money where their mouth is in terms of addressing racial inequities as well as unconscious biases women face."

"Overcoming the misconception that to be an impact fund you have to sacrifice returns for positive social impact remains to be one of the biggest challenges. Mainstreaming impact investing and integrating gender analysis and ESG as part of the investment process and not only reserving this for impact funds will be where we will need to get to as an industry as a whole globally."

"We need to continue to showcase the success stories of impact investing where intentionality around impact actually enhances returns, this will be key in helping impact investing to become more mainstream."

"It’s a business that we remain very, very excited about in terms of the growth trajectory."

"The way that they’ve been able to create this ecosystem that is really enabling the informal economy to really scale and have access to finance."

"The unit economics of these centres are just phenomenal."

"You set up a centre and it breaks even in a short space of time."

"We think that if you’re able to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare services, like diagnostics, in peri-urban areas so outside the big cities you are really able to position yourself in an industry with limited competition."

"Fundraising is not for the faint-hearted. *Getting global institutions to back you, back your firm, back your vision, back your strategy."

"It takes time, it takes years of building trust, years of communication, years of follow-ups."

"When you finally get them, it’s very, very fulfilling."

"You’re fundraising for one fund, you’re deploying another fund, you’re exiting another fund, you’re hiring, you’re reporting, you’re doing investor relations."

"Sometimes I feel there aren’t enough hours in the day."

"Sometimes I feel like I need three of me."

"They must work in secure and known worship places which do not put their followers’ lives in danger."

"I have always been a storyteller. I was even published when I was seven."

"It was important for us to see a strong tangible impact come from this programme. This is why we organised a trade trip to Europe and decided to take it one step further and work with industry experts for all of the individual modules of the course."

"You can't pay attention to those negative voices. This doesn't come naturally for a lot of people, so you have to fight through the perceptions that others have of you and not use those things as excuses to not succeed in what you are doing."

"In my program at Georgia Tech, there were three African-American men, three white women, and I was the only African-American woman. It was a very anti-woman, anti-minority culture"

"While challenges are being made to the exclusion of people of color in U.S. science and technology, progress toward eliminating the structural exclusion has been a long and difficult slog"

"America that did not believe in negro talent despite the scientific evidence that he and other African Americans had produced."

"You will fail, you should fail. But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.” Commencement address at Bates College."

"We made race, We can unmake it.” Reflecting on how race is socially constructed and how that understanding can change our engagement with science and inequality."

"The repo market is active and working well with local banks and depending on the liquidity on the market the Central Bank does repo or reverse repo on a weekly basis."

"Every situation and comment was filtered through the lens of ‘I am not enough’, ‘I am a failure’, and ‘I am a burden’, leading to a distorted self-image and a sense of being unloved unless I performed perfectly, Even when I graduated and secured a good job, it did not come with happiness as I thought."

"I didn't plan to be an entrepreneur"

"Anyone can be an innovator"

"You don't have to look a certain way. It's not just for one type of person. Anybody can play a role, and there is so much work to be done."

"so many opportunities and potentials in Africa to innovate and help improve people's lives."

"Dealing with polices and governments can be hard. Also, distributions: How can I get a product that I made in Lagos out here to Austin?"

"Every single challenge and opportunity also presents a space for an innovator and entrepreneur to solve that problem"

"It is important for technology leaders to take the lead and be innovative in the way we communicate to government, because they [government staff] are learning as much as we are"

"They don't plan to slow down"

"the ladies who want to build million-dollar companies, lead corporate organizations and crush it as leaders."

"Absolutely not! My life plan was not to be an entrepreneur; my life plan was definitely not to live in Nigeria."

"I originally thought that I was going to work in public policy or work in Government. That’s what I studied in school, that’s what I worked in after university and I thought that that was the direction I wanted to head in."

"Go and do the work! It doesn’t matter how sweet your marketing is, how fancy your offices are, how shiny your degrees look on paper if you can’t sit and do the work and deliver something that people actually need and value and care about, then it’s a waste."