“It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, "I saw a girl working in the bank in town, and she was a girl just like you." My parents had never completed primary sc...”

“Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly," I said. "So why won't the radio play?""I don't know," he said. "Try connecting them here."He was pointi...”

“Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!”

“Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with frien...”

“Don't worry about the water," said a man with a nervous grin. "This is hardwood, it won't ruin. You'll have this chair into your old years. How much do you have? I'll take anything. My children nee...”

“I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it bec...”

“Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”

“A soldier never goes to war without his weapon.”

“Neither your work to be with insensible, nor their work to be with you.”

“who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet..”