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Magatte Wade Quotes

Magatte Wade is a Senegalese entrepreneur who was raised in France. She gained initial fame for a TEDTalk she made in 2017 about what she argues is an excessive regulatory environment in Africa, which forces young Africans to emigrate for economic reasons.

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At this point I have no patience whatsoever with people who claim they want to help Africans or Black people but who are “anti-capitalists.

Capitalism is the best thing that ever happened to feminism. Women can escape poverty—and bad husbands too.

As I soon learned, 95 percent of my former network didn’t care. It was more important to them to be identified as enlightened (albeit wealthy) critics of capitalism. That was depressing.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Magatte Wade (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.