Sade Adeniran

"I figured that it would be better to make all my rookie mistakes on More Cake rather than on Imagine."

"the most important thing is access. Access to finance, access to decision-makers who can greenlight projects and access to top talent who can help bring your project alive."

"The toughest challenge is to keep going in the face of overwhelming odds."

"It was mean of him to expel her just because she didn't keep her legs closed. Maybe if I kept my legs open I'd also get expelled and Daddy would have to find me another school for me to go in Lagos"

"I went into the bushes to do a number two… I thought I had finished, but I could still feel something there so I used some leaves to wipe my bottom and there it was – a giant worm sticking out of my bottom! I screamed and started running with the worm dangling behind me… I stood there crying with my pants down, dress up and worm sticking out."

"If someone dies every week or so for the next five years then I'll never go hungry again…"

"If hunger forces a farmer to eat both his yam tubers and his seed yams, the years to come will have no yams to eat and none to plant"

"The time has come for me to start my life"

"Why, why, why, why? I hate them all, I want to go home. I don't want to live with my Auntie, I don't want to live in Idogun. I want everything to go back to the way it once was, with Daddy, Adebola and me living at number 4 Egbecombe House."

"Whatever the dead man see in the burial ground is caused by death"

"It is a pity i don't have long hair or live in tower, I could've left strands of hair along the way, which my prince could have followed after to Idogun and we would have lived happily ever after"

"I was going to live with her and no amount of sobbing and begging was going to change his decision"