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I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Africa is on the rise.

I am proud to be an African.

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.