Esther Afua Ocloo
Esther Afua Ocloo (born Esther Afua Nkulenu; 18 April 1919 – 8 February 2002) was a Ghanaian businesswoman and pioneer of microlending, a programme of making small loans in order to stimulate businesses.
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Quotes
[edit]- Women must know that the strongest power in the world is economic power
- I don’t listen. My main goal is to help my fellow women. If they make better marmalade than me, I deserve the competition.
- On what would have been her 98th birthday, today’s Doodle shows Esther empowering the women of Ghana with the tools to improve their lives and communities .
- I was ridiculed by all my classmates, who saw me hawking marmalade on the street like an uneducated street vendor.
- You cannot go and be begging to your husband for every little thing, but at the moment, that’s what the majority of our women do.
- My main goal is to help my fellow women. If they make better marmalade than me, I deserve the competition.
