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When you export raw materials, that is the door to poverty.

— Akinwumi Adesina

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To industrialize, Africa must solve its major challenge with very low access to electricity.

Africa must act fast to solve big problems, invest in youth and curb migration.

Together, let our roots of prosperity grow downwards and bear fruit upwards.

Africa cannot rely on the benevolence of others; investment is the strategy. Hard-nosed investments bringing in private capital are necessary to unlock Africa's assets.

Serving as President of the African Development Bank Group has been the greatest honor of my life. It has been a decade of relentless purpose, of enduring passion, and of tireless service.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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