''Look! You have a head on your shoulders and a brain... Use It!''
At the end of the Biafran war in 1970, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's family had lost everything. Her father, a renowned professor and a brigadier in the Biafran forces looked at his seven children with intensity and asked: "Look around you. What do you have?" Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala replied: "Nothing." He corrected: "You have a head on your shoulders and you have a brain. Use it. Even if you lost everything, you can start again." From almost nothing, Ngozi has risen to become an African Amazon. She is a renowned economist best know for her two terms as the Minister of Finance of Nigeria, and for her work at the World Bank. She was also one of the three candidates in the race to replace World Bank's President Robert Zoellick, and is currently listed by Forbes as one of the most powerful women in the world. I am inspired by her story because it reaffirms my belief that every living thing has something to give. No
