May Ifeoma Nwoye

"We can start by reviving our traditional cash crops, exploiting our local raw materials and calling for partners, especially in areas where we have competitive advantage."

"Women are always forced to prove their worth within the stringent boundaries of male-dominated profession like…"

"I didn’t even consider becoming a writer until, I recall, feeling overwhelmed with the prevailing situation at the time I started, having just returned to the country. It is; therefore, let’s call it, accidental good choice at the time of idleness."

"My poverty and environmental advocacy here has to do with listening to the soft voice of the silent majority who are peaceful, those who are ready for non-violent solution to crises, especially hapless women whose voice will never be heard because their cries cannot be projected above the slumps in their immediate environment."

"The point is that we must look inwards at our country’s specific circumstances and then seek indigenous solution to our indigenous problems…"

"I was pushed into doing accounting by my family. But my real love was drama and..."

"There is moral poverty, there is emotional poverty. Illiteracy is a brand of educational poverty. There is poverty arising from lack of awareness, just as there is poverty occasioned by the non-possession of the material requirements for comfortable living."

"This is one of the reasons why government policies need to become more pro-business to be able to promote self-reliant enterprises as well as employment opportunities."

"I’d like the world to be different because of my words, of course. I like to educate, to assist, to enlighten, to entertain. The body of my words is meant to take people a bit further along the path, so that they better understand who they are, who we are as people, how we are to live in light of reality."

"As a matter of fact solitude is an inherent part of writing. Unfortunately, in our contemporary society we have become accustomed to noise and to avoiding solitude at all costs and thus, surrounding ourselves with distractions, such as the cell phones, friends, and television and internet crowd."

"The main task is to put in place a broad environment that can attract people and in which creativity and entrepreneurship can flourish."

"Entrepreneurship culture is an environment, where someone is motivated to innovate, to create and take risks."