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.

Quotes

• Women must know that the strongest power in the world is economic power
  • https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2017/4/18/esther-afua-ocloo-ghanas-inspiring-businesswoman
• I don’t listen, “My main goal is to help my fellow women. If they make better marmalade than me, I deserve the competition.
  • https://qz.com/africa/962455/google-doodle-honors-ghanaian-entrepreneur-and-microlending-pioneer-esther-afua-ocloo
• 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 .
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/04/18/google-logo-esther-afua-ocloo/100592886/
• ”I was ridiculed by all my classmates, who saw me hawking marmalade on the street like an uneducated street vendor.”[1]
• ”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.”[2]
• ”My main goal is to help my fellow women. If they make better marmalade than me, I deserve the competition.”[3]