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Esther Afua Ocloo Quotes

1919–2002 Ghana

Esther Afua Ocloo (born Esther Afua Nkulenu; 18 April 1919 – 8 February 2002) was a Ghanaian businesswoman and pioneer of microlending, a programme of making small loans in order to stimulate businesses.

Ghana
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You cannot go and be begging to your husband for every little thing, but at the moment, that’s what the majority of our women do.

Women must know that the strongest power in the world is economic power

On what would have been her 98th birthday, today’s Doodle shows Esther empowering the women of Ghana with the tools to improve their lives and communities .

My main goal is to help my fellow women. If they make better marmalade than me, I deserve the competition.

I was ridiculed by all my classmates, who saw me hawking marmalade on the street like an uneducated street vendor.

I don’t listen. My main goal is to help my fellow women. If they make better marmalade than me, I deserve the competition.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Esther Afua Ocloo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.