"If contemporary art is defined as ‘art that is created now’, then the Spier Contemporary is the visual and aural barometer of what it is like to live in South Africa in 2010."

"..Image lost in the translation, who I was and what you see, I’m a queen, I’m a mother, but I’m out here hustling …"

"Populism and opportunism are the order of the day and all manner of insincerities abound – none of which bring us any closer to finding ways to solve the real problems of the day – poverty, hunger, unemployment, our lack of solidarity, community and ethics, the need for better systems of accountability and governance."

"I wish I could win but it’s okay if I didn’t. I am not going home with nothing, I am going back home with lots of opportunities. Big brother stargame is only the beginning of many doors that are going to open. My experience in the Big Brother house wasn’t all about the money; yes I would have loved to win the money. Being in the house for all of Africa to see me was worth as much as gold. I enjoyed it."

"I will love to work with my fellow musician housemates. I am open to anyone."

"I strongly believe in taking Africa to the world and when you get an opportunity like that, you take it with both hands."

"“A curious observer of the world around her, Ogunbiyi crafts forms that indirectly suggest the need for protective spaces that nurture.”"

"“Systems that capture, mediate, and direct the movement of people and matter is a recurring subject of investigation in her practice,”"

"“The artist is the one who has to mend the fragments for them to make sense,”"

"“Her work considers both the overt and conscious as well as the unconscious or surreptitious categorizations that define and propel the fate of art in multiple contexts: institutions, the marketplace and the academy,”"

"“Information is one of the greatest currencies in Lagos,” Dike says."

"“Information is hidden and buried; it is inaccessible to the people and only permitted to those in power.”"

"“To fill a lagoon with a bottle of wine, without money etc… this is a miracle,”"

"“One of the things that I find most compelling about Tayo’s studio work is its engagement with circulation systems: the way in which products, ideas and images circulate in a global marketplace. … What Tayo says about circulation in her art — that it isn’t seamless or neat and that it can involve rupture, violence or misrecognition — speaks eloquently to the difficulty, even perversity, of defining or knowing identity (national as well as individual) in the 21st century.”"

"“I found that as a foreigner, embarking on this project with little knowledge of the local culture, it was easier for me to find value in what is available locally, especially because much of what I encountered was new to me. At the same time, I enjoyed integrating my memories of Lagos – histories of threaded hairstyles and plants, with these Italian references. In the end, I learned quite a bit and hope that I was able to begin a dialogue between these two cities.”"

""TEMITAYO OGUNBIYI AND HER PLAYFUL VISIONS FOR NAPLES - THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2025."

"“create interactive sculptures that collapse the divide between fine art and play spaces”"

"“I feel accomplished having gotten my kids to do the better part of their school work!”"

"Luckily this time it was only music and no interaction so I performed for about half an hour. It felt good at the end when the crowd called for extra songs shouting ‘we want more."

"“Teeming spaces and troubled vision make good fiction for thinking.”"

"By the first concert I still couldn’t believe I was in Berlin. We had lunch with the Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Neville Gertze at a restaurant near the embassy. Then it was the interviews with the radio stations and the first sound check."

"Our love embraces and sets free the best that is in us now and in the future"

"Together we are our better selves"

"“And yet, we also exist to reach those not in the art world, the tourists and passersby who might be intrigued by the playfulness and color. We’re trying to draw them in.”"

"In every studio, I always cover the table with brown kraft paper. It's partly to protect the drawing but also so I can have somewhere to scribble down words (which i love almost as much as I love drawings)"

"“We aim to speak to the art world in their language, much of the time,”"

"Ink and graphite. Photo transfers and glitter. For the most part, my material notices are very analogue. Drawing can be many things, but for me still incorporates a pencil on paper. All of my supplies can fit in my tote bag."

"From the minute I sit down to the minute I wrap up for the day, I stay with my headphones on, even if no one is around. It's always music, but today it was Quadron's album, Avalanche"

"“This is a period of their lives filled with awkwardness and bodily insecurity. In engaging with them, we can explore resistance and resolution through those bodies.”"

"“I think and know that religion is not race-specific,”"

"Fame is weird. I’ve never been super famous. I’ve always been somewhat recognizable. It’s been the healthiest trajectory. [It’s] not a scary spike. I have my priorities. I know who I am. I know where I’m going. I know what it means. It means that I’m getting to do what I love."

"Jennifer's Body is my favourite movie that I've done. It was overlooked in theatres, but it does have a DVD following. I can't believe nobody wanted to see Megan Fox and me hitting it. They had an extreme close-up of our tongues, and I'm telling you, the thing about the scene is that it's actually really sexy. For a young girl to say that about her own sex scene - it must be because it's special. I think Megan and I kissed really well together. We have similar kissing styles and it worked. We got it done for the masses, and the masses still didn't show up."

"I am usually inspired by things around me; any situations I go through either Joy, pain, fear, doubt, love, anything… they are all things I take to God and deal with or pray about."

"I would love to be the first Nigerian woman to read through the Bible and represent Naija."

"Message of faith’s the only evergreen, says gospel singer, Tomi Favored; tours Africa. 25 August 2021, Vanguard Newspaper."

"Create an inclusive environment where people of all ages and backgrounds can engage in communal worship, even incorporating songs in various languages to reach a diverse audience."

"It all matters, what you read, what you watch and listen to. Take care of your health. Nothing in life is handed to you, embrace hard work. In everything you do, look out for balance; not perfection."

"I know my crafts and I can defend my handiwork wherever, whenever, and to whomever."

"My passion, commitment, resilience, and love for excellence always make me want to do things better and bigger."

"Extractivism refers to colonial practices that have existed over the last several hundred years with the goal of wealth and resource accumulation, regardless of the oppressions that geographically separate taker and giver. Digital extractivism is a form of extraction that’s made possible by digitization and exacerbated through borderless capitalism. Neema speaking on the challenges of the digital sector in Africa"

"I've always been a feminist and grew up with those ideals. The more I studied these spaces, the more I realised that there is a very significant gender digital divide. For reasons such as costs, safety, access, education, skills, and patriarchy, among others, women are not getting to use data and digital platforms in the same way. This was where we saw the need to bring in this gender element that if you just apply a one size fits all, it's not gonna work. So that's how technology and feminism came together.Neema speaking with digital earth in an interview"

"I think there's many different ways people can understand feminism. I think some people would say feminism is equality, right. But that doesn't really make sense because human beings are not equal at all. So I think for me, I really think of feminism as the freedom to really live your life in the way you want. To live it free from fear and to live it in a way where you can make the most of whatever opportunities are out there.Neema speaking on feminism and African women"

"There have been many advances in e-government across many of the countries that we work in, but there is still a very, very long way to go, not just in the digitalization of services and service design, but in even making sure that all citizens can then access these digital services.” Neema speaking to dai-global-digital"

"“I would love for Global North-based organizations to not view organizations within Africa and the expertise that they hold as ‘local.’ There is a massive imbalance in power whereby Global North-based organizations can set up shop in Africa and run the show with little context or care, and establish themselves as experts. However, within this worldview, Africans can only be experts, if that, within their own community.Neema speaking on the the role of africa in the Global scene"

""Some of my proudest moments in STEM have been around conducting vital research on our technological and data ecosystems to put our needs, challenges and solutions on the map." Neema speaking on her proudest moment as a scientist"

"“I’m proud of the breadth of feminist technology research that we have put out in our short existence and in pushing for these issues to be at the forefront of technology development, research, and deployment. My favorite projects, as an artist, are the ones that deal with art: painting murals across Kampala based on citizen data, creating an interactive fictional game on digital safety for women in East Africa, curating short stories on speculative fiction by young Africans, and when I can, creating the illustrations and visuals for our reports.”Neema speaking on some of her proud moments"

"This sounds cliche, but I’m just always driven by this need for social justice. I do feel like, on one hand, that digital tech has the ability to transform people’s lives in terms of improving their life experiences and how they interact with governments, how governments provide services, how you receive education, how you receive entertainment, and how you work."

"we have our feet firmly on the ground in Uganda, across Africa, and now, across the world.”Neema speaking on her plans to make pollicy a global company"

"“My parents supported me to pursue whatever field I wanted and raised me with the mentality that girls could do anything just as well as boys." Rachel speaking on the role her parents played in her growth and success"