"I having my career then evolving into advertising; working with advertising agencies and then going into marketing and communications as my broad field of specialization."

"I graduated from Makerere University."

"I am a graduate, of journalism."

"Those three pillars; life, brands and people, that’s who I am."

"My entire career has been around advertising, communications and marketing, but I just have a passion and a zest for life, for brands and for people."

"I think I’ve evolved over the years, but right now, I’d call myself a passionate learner of life."

"We have close to 1,500 people benefiting from the project."

"The increase in access to electricity has improved the livelihood of households and communities and Uganda and has been."

"That are connected to electricity over the past 10 years."

"Through my efforts together with the Umeme team, the country has been able to more than double the number of households."

"I am proud to be the first female Executive Director to the board of Umeme Limited, a company and sector for which I hold so much passion."

"Today I am managing 600 permanent employees and 1,000 contracted staff."

"This exposed me to the entire business."

"At the time of my intern year, the graduate training programme, which ran for two intensive years and hosted by the then publicly owned utility was a public entity."

"Energy distribution company listed on the Ugandan and Kenyan stock exchanges."

"I rose through the ranks to executive level at Umeme Ltd."

"I joined the energy sector as a graduate trainee in 1996."

"Through dedication, commitment to results and hard work, I held the power to succeed."

"It dawned on me that there are no limitations to the possibilities that can be achieved."

"When I had contracted a sale, which was ten times the average salesperson’s daily output."

"One of the early defining moments in my working career was during my first job as a sales executive in a company dealing in office equipment."

"This I believe is the important cornerstone that gave me the courage to follow a career path probably not traditionally set out for women."

"I went to a faith based girls’ only school where discipline and values were instilled in us."

"I was fortunate to grow up in an extended family environment."

"In Africa it is said that ‘it takes a village to raise a child."

"Who would have thought so many years ago that as the only girl-child of four siblings my path would lead to Uganda’s electricity distribution utility and managing such an important public service."

"In the early years it gave me the confidence every day to wake up and say, I am not going anywhere."

"I felt it showed that I will always be here."

"For MTN, they have been around for like 24 years, this should be their 25th and this should be the turning point and milestone as a listed company. For me, it’s an interesting opportunity to walk this journey with MTN as a listed company."

"Governance is my passion and for me, it’s an opportunity to serve. MTN is a listed company and I have worked in the capital markets area for a very long time and so it’s an opportunity to make a real contribution."

"MTN’s board welcomes Prof. Kiryabwire to the team and expresses confidence that her wealth of experience and expertise will be invaluable in helping the company achieve its strategic goals and objectives."

"The area we have chosen is giving, but giving is so multifaceted. Because as the conversation has to change among Africans, it also has to change in the West."

"One of the things that have happened over the last decade or so with social media is that it has democratized storytelling, because we used to have one medium i.e. the press, but now anyone can tell a story."

"Count means that every giving counts, you don’t have to be a billionaire, everything you give counts."

"There is something in me that stirred whenever there was injustice"

"For Asiimwe, giving in Africa has been a culture that will never fade off. From the time of our forefathers who carried a calabash full of local brew to visit their friends, to our mothers who made us carry baskets of food while visiting relatives, we have learned that a hand that giveth is the same hand that receiveth."

"Questions around how to conquer corruption are the reason the African Anti-Corruption Day was delegated by the African Union, to shift Africa to throw back on the causes and effects of corruption then work out solutions to end it and consequently redeem us from the chains of this subjections"

"We need to have cooperation, proper coordination through the African Union committee. This means that after this meeting it is very important to put the report together and share with AU"

"When the masses understand that all the 140 billion dollars which we receive from the West in loans, grants, and aid ends up in a few people’s pockets, it will be them and their descendants to pay it back with interest. They will rise up to save that money. When we disclose corruption as that mysterious wealth, not in line with a public officer’s familiar source of income, they will stand up to safeguard their wealth"

"Unlike Americans, in Africa, it is not easy to become famous within a short time. So I better focus on my businesses. I have kids and music will require so much of my time because I have to be on tour all through."

"No one wants a world full of the same people."

"Found the once troubled body ripe for change, and much as a lot has changed through various reforms, the transformation is not complete."

"We think old people are the ones who should have accomplishments. But when you are young, you are energetic then."

"Today in Uganda and elsewhere, people use livestock not only for food and income, but also as a bank account and as insurance."

"It’s important that smallholder farmers integrate livestock into their farming. It’s feasible, productive and profitable."