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“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett (Author)

“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Former President of Liberia)

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa)

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X (Civil Rights Activist)

“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett (Author)

Did you know that Bowling is an African healing and diagnostic and divination instrument mistaken for a game?

“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.” ~Hebrew Proverb

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey (Pan-African Political Activist and Legend)

“If you’re getting protein from a plant-based product, you’re literally getting protein. You’re not getting protein and cholesterol or protein and fat, which makes a big difference” – Olaoluwa Fashola (Founder of Casa Vegan)

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for…Oh, never mind.” – Alice Walker (African-American novelist, best known for The Colour Purple and social activist)

“Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.” – Lailah Gifty Akita (Ghanaian and founder of Smart Youth Volunteers Foundation)

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe, American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles.

“Getting things done is better than having things perfect. Done is better than perfect. Whatever you have in your hands, get going with it. Just do it.” —Charles Igwe, Nollywood Global Media Group, Nigeria

“Kenya is aligned to neither East nor West; we are, firmly and irreversibly, aligned to progress.” – Uhuru Kenyatta (President of Kenya)

“One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.” – (African Proverb)

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa and Anti-Apartheid Revolutionary)

“Whoever controls the images of a people also controls the self esteem, self respect and self development of those people.” – Dr. Leonard Jeffries” (Pan-Africanist Historian)

“Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story”
– Paul Kagame (President of Rwanda)

We have a winner for our first monthly competition series! – Ayomide Adefemi is a Pharmacology student at Afe Babalola University in Nigeria’s Ekiti state.

“A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum-crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigeria’s “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy” – Patrick Obahiagbon (Former Chief of Staff to the Edo State governor – (Just Youtube Him)

“Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.” – Malcolm X (Civil Rights Activist)

“Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.” – Mutabaruka (Jamaican Rastafari dub poet)

“One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.” – (African Proverb)

“One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.” – (African Proverb)

“One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.” – (African Proverb)

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.” — Mike Adenuga (Third richest person in Africa)

“We rise by lifting others” – Davido (King of modern Afrobeats / Most followed Nigerian on Instagram)

“To be without a friend is to be poor, indeed.” – African proverb

“Africa was not a primitive place at all, the people there were very advanced.”-Runoku Rashidi (African American Historian)

“One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.” – (African Proverb)

“The launch of the How to Invest series on AfriTreasure.com aims to produce easier access to information for homegrown and diaspora Africans regarding investment opportunities in Africa.” – Joy Isaac (Founder of AfriTreasure.com)

Until you finally settle in a new country, there are some things that you won’t…

“The launch of the How to Invest series on AfriTreasure.com aims to produce easier access to information for homegrown and diaspora Africans regarding investment opportunities in Africa.” – Joy Isaac (Founder of AfriTreasure)

“As Africa’s tourism industry begins to open up fairly quickly, CRAWL Africa was created to showcase the beauty of Africa, promote local tourism and bring businesses closer to their customers. Since our inception, we have gained thousands of active users and look forward to entering other markets. Africa’s first social Calendar App is here!” – Bukky George-Taylor (Cofounder of the CRAWL app)

“Your food is supposed to be your medicine and your medicine is supposed to be your food” – (African Proverb)

“Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama (First African-American First Lady of the United States)

“We have to be inpatient in moving Africa forward” – Akinwumi Adesina (President, African Development Bank)

“God says when. I execute”– Khalid Abdul Muhammad (one of the greatest souls to ever live)

“If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came, we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves” – Marcus Garvey (Political Activist)

“Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.” – African proverb

“If we as a people realised the greatness from which we came, we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves” – Marcus Garvey

“If life has beaten you severely and your face is swollen, smile and act like a fat man.” – Nigerian proverb

“Africa’s agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent’s economy and its people. ” – Richard Attias (Moroccan businessman)

Africa is our centre of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth – John Henrik Clarke

“True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages” – Kemetic proverb

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations” – Dr. Mae C. Jemison
(First black woman to travel to space)

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy” – Ernest Hemingway

“It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa” – Will Smith

“I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity” – Fela Kuti