in conjunction with NYFA 2015
CSI at NYFA
- “If you are doing something that you really love, it is not work.”- Barclay Paul Okari
- “What keeps you going [as an entrepreneur] is the need to see your idea come to fruition.”- Kwame Abrokwa
- “African youth - there will not be the expected growth without your dreams. You need to create your job. In the DNA of Africans, the entrepreneurship gene is there.”- Karl Miville de Chene
- “Let’s do everything to make sure youth are key stakeholders and are included.”- Michaëlle Jean
- “Europe needs to do more in Africa so that African students can return to help their countries of origin.”- José Manuel Barroso
- “The country cannot develop without you. Each of you has the opportunity to reach and accomplish your dreams. The continent of Africa is the continent of the future.”- H.E. Ali Bongo Ondimba
- “Africa’s strong economic growth (5 percent) is thanks to its youth, which will be the main source of production and innovation in the coming years.”- Lionel Zinsou
- “Talent does not exist everywhere. The only difference between countries is access. Without having access, nothing will happen.”- Garry Kasparov
- “African women have arrived.”- Isabel dos Santos
- “There’s a preconceived idea on Africa which is totally obsolete. Africa is now the future.”- Laurent Fabius
- “Ambition is a key factor in transformation. The will to transform a country has to be accompanied by action”- Hafid Elalami
- “All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment”- Cherie Blair
- “The 21st century is the century of Africa.”- Vincente Fox
- “This Forum is a perfect example of Gabon's engagement as a future-thinking country, searching for innovative solutions to the challenges facing Africa in its economic growth.”- Alassane Ouattara
- “Africa is now open to all investors. Its leaders are willing to preserve the continent’s resources and willing to engage in a win-win partnership.”- Macky Sall
- “Together, we want to encourage young women to venture into new frontiers, and learn that they can achieve anything.”- Sylvia Bongo Ondimba
- “Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.”- Nouriel Roubini
- “We Africans must do business with each other.”- President F.W. de Klerk
- “We need to have a competitive economy and proper legal environment to create enterprise, which in turn creates jobs.”- Jean-Louis Billon
- “We need peace for security but we also need justice and accountability.”- Fatou Bensouda
- “Given technology in tough environments, people will do more with that technology than its engineers could have ever imagined.”- Jared Cohen
- “You look at Africa the biggest impediment is our not being able to work together. It’s very simple.”- Kola Karim
- “If you get the politics and the policies right, the economics usually follow.”- Lord Mandelson
- “The G.D.P. of african countries has been rising swiftly, but we must take into account issues like access to water supply, education, healthcare, infrastructure and employment.”- Olusegun Obasanjo
