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"---as a young aspiring entrepreneur, spend time figuring out if this is the best way for you to create an impact in the world. Usually, the best way to do so would be by working at a fast-growing startup. Furthermore, surround yourself with smart and talented people with who you can have fun as you build and grow. A combination of grit, back-of-brain motivation and technical competence scale your ability to successfully build and grow a startup."

"We also learned that imported solutions do not work. You cannot convince businesses that they need a solution that they are not convinced that they need, which has been an incredible pain point for us because there’s always a risk when building software and replicating a playbook."

"Small businesses want to make more money, and they want to keep as much of that money in their pockets for as long as possible. This means that whatever solutions you’re building for them have to very directly address one of the pain points that affect their ability to do that."

"One thing I learned was that all solutions have to be tailored towards the pain points of the target audience."

"African businesses operate informally and this lack of structure allows businesses to lose millions of dollars every year."

""95% of small businesses in Nigeria (our primary market) die in the first 5 years - building generational businesses is not the norm in our part of the world."

"It is important to identify what aligns well with your strengths. Achieving this through self-reflection alone can be challenging. Ideally, seek input from mentors or friends you trust who can provide insights into your areas of strength."

"Another lesson we learned was avoiding the temptation to throw money at problems. If you’re in a position where you can afford to throw money at problems, you have a quality problem, because most people don’t have the money to solve their problems, but it’s still not always the best solution."

"A big lesson we learned while building Kippa was definitely to not scale your team too early. You need to have very few people who are very hard working and can take on multiple roles and multiple hats."

"Our words are seeds of life. Let us sow seeds of goodness and positivity into the lives of children; and nourish them through our good."

"I understand as I take off with this plane as your pilot, there might be few turbulence. don’t worry, Captain Rochas is in command but it will get to a point, after the rough bad weather that we shall get to the cruising point when I shall say to Alhaja Udi, Professor, Adamu, Segun, and Okey, ‘I’ll say, come onboard, come untie your seatbelt and let us enjoy the New Nigeria."

"There would be no future for the educated if we don't address the issues of illiteracy in our country."

"On when Nigeria will be ripe for female Presidency, it’s possible for this 2023. Why not? Because all the people that have become the President were supported by people. If the players and kingmakers decided that a woman should become the next President, then that is it."

"How can you be talk about a population with its 55 per cent made up of females yet there is no single woman on the decision making table in the country."

"For every woman out there!! Lately I've been seeing women mock, condemn and even curse each other out on social media. it is so painful, I mean we have all made mistakes In our lives, ALL OF US! So why are we so quick to call another woman out, why is the word "bitch" such a trend now.. we women really need to encourage and most importantly pray for each other.. you can save her life with kind words.. that will never take anything out of you. A lot of women will hate this post as good things are barely promoted but may God touch your heart.. God bless us."

"You guys I actually had an experience with R.Kelly. I was about 16 working part-time at a retail store in Sandton (Johannesburg) we heard R.Kelly was in the mall, so we were standing outside the store to see him pass and I swear we locked eyes. He stopped and said hi to me, me out of everyone??!! and was asking me my name when my boss called us back in! I was angry at my boss though but watching this documentary now I'm like wow. Maybe underage girls were his type and was about to show interest"

"I will also organize seminars to mentor young girls, a kind of motivational programme aimed at mentoring them"

"I will help stop child trafficking and child abuse. We have to work with agencies in this area to eliminate the menace. We need to work with agencies involved in this area to keep children off the street and free them from forced labour"

"We had to bond. The girls became sisters. You wake in the morning, you meet the same girls with whom you do practically everything. While in camp, you argue, you make up. We had so many great moments"

"Of course, yes. I mean, you buying a form means you are ready to become MBGN. I always knew I would be a beauty queen. Years back, the password to all my accounts had been forevermissworld"

"I have always wanted to be a queen and I feel amazing to have won the pageant. Winning the Miss World looks promising and I have the confidence to, having won this"

"When God says yes, nobody can change His verdict."

"This discovery fueled my determination to create and personally finance a committee for Nigerian films to compete at this prestigious level of international cinema."

"The Nigerian film industry possesses immense potential and talents, and I believe that with continued dedication and cooperation, it will undoubtedly reach new heights"

"Every first dream will not be a dream for much longer."

"Feyi had already decided who she wanted to be that night, so she stared right back at him, unabashed, drinking in his terra-cotta skin and dark copper beard.”"

"(Chapter 1, Page 2)"

"Feyi felt like a monster and a traitor, but it was fine, it had to happen.”"

"(Chapter 1, Page 5)"

"“I think we’re just figuring out how to survive a world on fire…that it’s okay to be alive.”"

"(Chapter 1, Page 6)"

"For a moment, there was the scream of tires and the mad chime of broken glass, the soft petals of white lilies, and a clod of dirt breaking apart in Feyi’s hand, but she brushed it all aside like smoke."

"The revolution needs artists, just like it needs healers and storytellers, just like it needs the organizers and protesters. It's all one big organism working together."

"(Chapter 5, Page 56)"

"He raised his head as Bitter emerged from the office, and his face broke into a huge smile. It made the blood rush to Bitter's face, how openly Aloe showed his pleasure at her presence. Sometimes she wondered how he found the courage to flash emotions as if no one could hurt him with them."

"(Chapter 4, Page 43)"

"You are allowed to feel safe, " Miss Virtue said. Bitter blinked, the tears heated her eyes because the words were so simple, yet so heavy with permission."

"(Chapter 4, Page 42)"

"...the world gotta burn before we can build a new one. We just got different ideas about what kinda fire we need."

"(Chapter 13, Page 138)"

"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."

"I think multiple realities exist. Most colonised countries had their cosmology, their ontology, their metaphysics colonised too. They’ve been told that what was there before wasn’t real. My dad’s a pretty conservative Christian, but he’ll still get a pastor to come to the hospital [where he works as a doctor] because someone’s been working black magic. I say to him: “If you don’t believe in it, why is the pastor there?” He says: “You don’t need to believe in something for it to be real.”"

"(Chapter 7, Page 76)"

"…I read literally everything I could get my hands on – the shampoo bottle, the cereal box. My mom didn’t let us have books at the table or we’d all have read. We didn’t always have electricity, so I read by candlelight. I read really fast too. My parents realised I’d run out of things to read and were like: “We need to buy you way more books.”"

"…The novel is autobiographical, so I used my life as a chronological skeleton for the story, which meant revisiting a lot of things that were immensely painful. It was also a process of discovery – I had no outline for Freshwater, no idea how it was going to take shape, but it built itself as I was writing it."

"…Whenever you write something biographical, everyone in your family doesn’t share the same memory. So your version of the story is not necessarily their version of the story, and part of the flexibility in having it fictionalized is that there’s not really a need to adhere to the strict facts. Because everything is colored by memory, especially when you’re pulling from childhood memories. There’s a little bit of wiggle room. This is my story of these events, as I remember it, as I experienced it…"

"…When I ask myself what beauty is in my eyes, the answer is that I would prefer not to have eyes. I would prefer not to have flesh, I would prefer to be dust, free of the whole thing altogether…"

"This was before Vivek, before the fire, before Chika would discover exactly how difficult it was to dig his own grave with the bones of his son.”"

"There was nothing boiling in him, just a loud and clear exhale, a weight of peace wrapping around his heart.”"

"Osita wished, much later, that he’d told Vivek the truth then, that he was so beautiful he made the air around him dull, made Osita hard with desire. ‘Take it off,’ he snapped instead, his throat rough. ‘Put it back before they catch us.’”"