“Thank you, for saying this. I must credit my parents for ensuring that my siblings and I set forth at dawn. I started reading books before I was six years old. In the 90s, there was a pandemic in Edo State, where I come from. We had so many young girls going to Europe in search of greener pastures. My mom would tell me that I needed to study hard so that I could become that Edo woman who people respect for her intellect.”