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When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a lot, I don't really speak the language.' I wasn't speaking the language as fluently as I am now, so it was always going to be a challenge, but it was a challenge I decided to take and change nationalities. Alex Iwobi

When I was younger I just played football for the fun of it, scoring the maddest goals and trying to come up with new tricks but when you've got to take yourself into a proper match, you've got be serious. Alex Iwobi

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I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging. Aliko Dangote

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I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris. Aliko Dangote

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My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather. Aliko Dangote

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The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power - or the lack of power. Aliko Dangote

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I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team. Aliko Dangote

Business Think Run Also Very Successful Team

Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut it down. We had a tomato-based processing plant; we have shut it down. Aliko Dangote

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I always make sure I hire people smarter than me. Aliko Dangote

Me People Smarter Make Sure Always Hire Than

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets. Aliko Dangote

Facebook Hype Real Were Where Assets

I'm not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that's successful... I'm a very creative person. Aliko Dangote

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When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake. Ayobami Adebayo

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I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness. Ayobami Adebayo

Happiness People Own Define Able Idea Am Interested Should

I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly. Ayobami Adebayo

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift. Ayobami Adebayo

You People Money Gift Give Never Afford Lend Them

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate. Ayobami Adebayo

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Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often. Ayobami Adebayo

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There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be. Ayobami Adebayo

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past. Ayobami Adebayo

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I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events that took place in that time. Ayobami Adebayo

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There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society. Ayobami Adebayo

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories. Ayobami Adebayo

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Usually, by the time I hit 'save' before taking a nap, my word count has gone down, but the world I'm creating feels more tangible than it did before. Ayobami Adebayo

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