"I am just going to do my best. I am going to represent Ghana to the fullest. I need the support of every single Ghanaian; they should support me in every possible way they can"

"I represented Ghana well and did my very best but I didn't come out victorious. We can only give thanks to God for whatever happens"

"“The future of technology is female and African.”"

"Coding and generally technology has so much untapped potential in Africa. For females, the future is even brighter. Day in and day out there are so many opportunities that come up to promote women in technology."

"Our vision is to shape a world where more African women will be daring enough to lead in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."

""We want the women in our community to be at the forefront of technology on the continent and beyond." ** https://deenazaidi.com/spotlight-on-african-women-in-tech-ivy-barley Ivy Barley on the vision of Developers in Vogue for African women in TECH"

"Generally, society has the perception that tech fields are not meant for women."

"Some tech workplaces don’t create the ideal environment for women to thrive."

"I believe that by investing in infrastructure, internet access can be more affordable and available."

"you have to believe in yourself: you’re capable of doing so much!"

"“Generally, society has the perception that tech fields are not meant for women. Though many women are interested in tech, they tend to get discouraged along the line and so drop out. However, I believe tech is gender neutral, and anyone can excel at it.”"

"“Whatever your passion is, you definitely need a lot of diligence and determination.”"

"Females make up more than 50 percent of the population of most African countries, and with tech on the rise, it is becoming even more crucial that African women are equipped with tools that help them transform the tech scene in Africa."

"I enjoy and get fulfilment from working through problems that are difficult to solve, chop it off bit by bit and at the end of the day bring meaningful change. The Entrepreneurial Spirit is a part of who I am."

"I would say just do it. This is the best time to start a business if you haven’t already. Get your experience now and whether you’re now starting your business or already have, it’s not too late to start using OZÉ. Go for it and make sure you have the right place and support to do it."

"we can get people to ideate, we can support them to build better businesses, but they’re still running into this wall of, they have no access to resources."

"Obviously this work that we do is hard and, and underfunded in many cases."

"I love solving big, systemic, sticky problems. Mm. I think it’s what gets me up in the morning."

"Financial inclusion is about outcomes. It’s about what intuitive, accessible, and affordable financial tools can do to improve business performance and quality of life."

"One of the biggest challenges is maintaining rapid growth while educating customers."

"If you can combine the ingenuity of African innovators with the experience of European bankers, you can create solutions that will give millions access to powerful financial tools."

"Where we can be strengthened is in connecting more meaningfully with markets who are focused on banking and financing."

"Let’s think beyond payments. Payments should be the rails that support a vast array of financial products and services."

"I believe that true innovation happens at intersections."

"Doing music on your own is not easy especially creating your own support system."

"But when I see the stories that I have stopped music, I just laugh because before I got married, I went to school. Will you say I stopped music to go to school?."

"I didn’t put up any write-up; I didn’t say anything… I haven’t stopped music because I didn’t say I have."

"“I never quit music. I have not stopped music."

"Later when I am done with my Masters and I get the opportunity to work on my music I will."

"I would love to do music again. There’s nothing blocking me."

"Every Ghanaian has the ability to invest but procrastination is what is keeping everyone from attaining financial independence."

"For you to be able to create wealth, you need to be able to plan, you need to be disciplined, you need to have information and also you need to monitor. Without discipline, you can never be a millionaire."

"You cannot say you want to sacrifice career over family or sacrifice family for your career. You’ve got to balance it and that is what I did."

"Our unique makeup as women makes it very difficult and challenges our ability to function easily in a male dominated environment."

"a mother, to be able to achieve success in a professional job there is a fundamental need to be supported by your husband and free more roles on the domestic chores."

"My drive has always been to exceed expectation there, by not just meeting targets but exceeding it."

"I was born into a huge family; we’re 63 in number. And growing up, I had to defend myself from my brothers and that taught me how to stand up for myself in the outside world."

"It is easy enough to be the first, we can each try something and be the first woman or the first African woman to do X, Y or Z. But, if it’s something worthwhile you don’t want to be the only. …I hope that I can, in any way, inspire someone to do what I have done but learn from my mistakes and do better than I have done."

"It's really just showing that there is more that you could be enjoying, that you could be learning from, that you could be reading."

"Sometimes people ask me how long it took me to put that together and I always say that it either took about a couple of years or all my life, depending on how you look at it."

"No, when you’re doing something you do it because you have a passion for doing it or you want to see it come to fruition but you’re not necessarily looking beyond that. It certainly has had an impact on people – people as readers, people as writers – because I think there were a lot of people who read that book who wanted to be writers and were influenced by it in one way or another. So, I guess it has had an influence and has a continuing influence; this new anthology demonstrates a continuing link to those writers and that whole literary history of women of African descent who are using words creatively, whether orature, spoken word, speeches, the written word, different genres."

"The internet has made it possible for writers to have greater visibility and to access different parts of their literary history but I don’t think things have necessarily changed so much towards literary responses to black women writers of African descent. Somehow a lot of praise is still kept on a few, as if they have to represent everybody, and they’re the only ones who will actually get that sort of literary accreditation and critical attention."

"It’s really just showing that there is more that you could be enjoying, that you could be learning from, that you could be reading. There are things that could open your mind, that could enlighten you that you have to seek out for yourself because it is not being offered within your formal curriculum."

"If I said to you, put together an anthology of two-hundred women of European descent that would include everyone from Jane Austen to JK Rowling – that would be difficult! You’d have left out a lot of people and that’s the case here: there are two-hundred wonderful contributors but there are many more that could’ve been in it – so it’s something that I’m proud of but something that in a strange way I’m not quite satisfied with. It’s never a question of saying this was a definitive anthology; the first one wasn’t definitive in that way and this one is not. But anyway it’s a start – I’ll do another one maybe."

"I don’t even know when they do that, sometimes I think that they can only think of a few people so they just bung me on! I think it’s an honour to be thought of in those grandiose terms but I’m not living my life with an ambition to be on some list and I’m not even sure that it’s true – but its a great honour!"

"Make it a habit to do something different" - Elizabeth-Irene Baitie."

"Whenever I am in a relationship, I go all out for the person. I always put the people I love ahead of my needs. When I am in a relationship, I invest all my energy and resources which ends up draining me and slowing me down. I get turned off when I realize the affection is only one-sided."

"It annoys me when some men take advantage of me after showing them love and care."

"It is not something I'm looking forward to or looking at all. I'm not with anybody, but I'm not interested. I'm not looking forward to be with anybody because that is not my focus."

"My husband might have been executed because Mr. Rawlings saw him as a threat to the AFRC regime."