"Having had the opportunity to mingle with the brightest and smartest people in the global technology capital – Silicon Valley, via Skylight Communications, Ebay, and now Senior Technical Manager at Google, my heart continues to burn with a mission: “Helping minority groups, especially women and disadvantaged people, access not only to better education, but also to quality complementary education.”"

"My dream is to use Seven Advanced Academy to build a community of standard experts from Silicon Valley first in my country, Cameroon, and then in Africa. The world-class Tech engineering community will attract the Top Multinationals to invest in our country in no time, and that’s essentially what is missing for the time being."

"At the end of the patience, there is the sky"

"My life is in danger."

"We need better laws to protect women and girls"

"It is very difficult to be a woman in politics, especially in a culture where we have a tradition of discrimination against women and girls, but I know that in our society women are respected."

"But that day there was a pen, I took it and started writing. After a while, a certain calm came over me, I felt better. Maybe that was a survival instinct."

"I am now sure of myself and my place. I will never let anyone take it. I remain serene. No matter what wife comes, I will fight. No matter what weapons she uses, I will still win the battle."

"If you have been able to tame a lion, it is not your husband, a poor man, who will surpass you. Act exactly the same way with him and he will be yours forever. If you have been able to obtain these whiskers, it is because you have had the best qualities that a woman can have: patience and cunning. Take care of your husband like a child. Tame him like this lion that you have tamed. Be patient, cunning, intelligent. And he will never be able to separate from you. This is the secret to attaching a husband to yourself. No amulet would be worth it."

"We only die when our time on earth is over. A time already written by the Creator from the first breath of life. We cannot advance or rewind this fateful moment. Why then lament the implacable decision of Allah?"

"Treat your husband like a child. Tame him like the lion you have tamed. Be patient, cunning , intelligent . And he will never be able to separate from you. This is the secret to keeping a husband. No amulet could beat it."

"Seduce him with your generous behavior, your pleasant presence, your tasty cuisine. Show him that no woman will ever be able to surpass you. The advantage of polygamy is that it allows you to test his love and your power over him. You are his first wife. All those who follow will never be as precious as you. None will be able to live what you have lived. None will be able to give him children as you have given him. You are the privileged one and you will always remain so."

"What an old person sees while sitting, a child, even if he gets up, will not see!"

"Patience is an art that is learned patiently"

"My children know that life has not been kind to me"

"Ma seule ambition était de pouvoir vivre et de pouvoir manger à ma faim...j’aurais parfois mille fois préféré avoir une vie bien simple loin de tout ce tapage inutile, loin de moi de cracher sur la soupe. (My only ambition was to be able to live and to be able to eat when I'm hungry...I would sometimes have preferred a thousand times to have a very simple life far from all this useless noise, far from me to spit on the soup."

"Women peace builders run to the problem when everyone else is running away; let us go where the guns are loud."

"“One of our strategies is to localize our actions and strengthen community structures. I have not given up, and cannot give up because many communities, many women, many children, look up to me, hoping that justice is achieved and that they can return to normal life.”"

"The journey for peace may not happen overnight, but with persistence we can achieve it."

"Female leaders in peacebuilding embody resilience, transforming challenges into progress and hope. With every step, they ignite change, uplift voices, and build bridges that sustain peace for generations."

"As one of the leaders, it is my job to bring Cameroon back to the top with help of other players"

"Cameroon needs me as a leader and I will be that leader"

"The president [of the Federation] has contacted me and I am on board to bring Cameroon back on the top. It won’t be easy. I know the challenge and I also know what needs to be done, so I have a plan in place"

"But instead my mother was the happiest woman in Cameroon as her daughter that she long waited 15 years to bring to the world was carrying a whole country in her hands."

"Playing in front of my family and friends was the best thing that ever happened to my career. Being able to carry my country to the final was my dream but doing it in front of my loved ones was a dream come true. I will never forget the [FIBA Women's ] AfroBasket 2015 in Cameroon because that year was a turning-point in my career and a year my father would have been so proud of me"

"I have so much basketball to play. My daughter Diana will watch me play and I know my country is still counting on me to lead them to the gold medal. My fans are waiting for my return and I will not disappoint them. I will fight like I always do and having my daughter in the background is a plus for me."

"I am who I am and I make no apologies. My soul has always been from another place, where hearts are seen and scars are shared. There's another world somewhere waiting for me. I hear it calling in my dreams; it's calling me home. I run towards the voices, the hearts, the scars."

"Small class sizes put every Hillyer student in a "front row" seat and as a result I get to know each student as an individual with his/her own needs and talents."

"Doing good and being helpful to people is a healthy tonic- good for the soul and necessary for mankind."

"Belief in a God is essential for a productive life. It is the best gift parents can give their children. I remain grateful that my parents showed me the way to the Christian God."

"Time sometimes is the only solution. You just have to be patient for time to do the job."

"Hard work pays eventually."

"What is impossible with man is possible with God."

"”My soul has always been from another place, where hearts are seen and scars are shared"."

"We want to get to know more about what is going on in our own entertainment industry"

"I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else."

"I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you're like… like light made into flesh."

"As we seek to access foreign markets we must also build and strengthen our own capital markets and increase efforts towards financial inclusion."

"The health pandemic caught Africa, like the rest of the world, unprepared. Our insurance systems were not deep enough, and as a collective we’ve needed to come together to respond. Twenty years after the birth of the African Union, which was created to reinforce solidarity, the continent was tested."

"The power of NEPAD is the power of ideas and solutions it brings to the table. NEPAD and ECA have been working together closely on the MoveAfrica border system to harmonise systems, processes, and regulations in support of implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. NEPAD has also been at the forefront to ensure that the single African transport market can take hold. It is time for Africa to have its own development institution."

"She is one person who believes determination and consistency is the magic to thriving"

"I meet so many people who read twitter every day, but almost never tweet. If I may beg your indulgence, please add your voice to the public dialogue!"

"it is sad to see opposition to homosexuality continuing despite the headlines carrying the rheorical question, “who am I to judge?”"

"It still officially describes both gay people and homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered”."

"I told myself to be true to me, even if I have just one day left to live. Life is so precious to live in deceit. Coming out was a way to exonerate myself and be and live free."

"I belief, we as Africans, can begin to live change once we have access to information that is vital for our well being."

"I come from a country where we are so limited simply by the things we don’t know. And there is so much out there that we are not aware off and which exist for free."

"I am not too surprised about myself – some will say I have an audacity of courage."