I have learnt to keep my privacy out of the public purview especially in discussions with journalists. But there is nothing hidden in my life. I live… - Onyeka Onwenu

I probably would have been somewhere buying and selling like every other woman who is trying to survive. If I didn't have education, it would still have been the same thing. I can buy and sell at all levels, considerably.

I cried my eyes out, with the realization that as difficult as my life was, it could not be compared with what Winnie Mandela was going through. I was no Winnie Mandela for sure, but I could identify with her loneliness and some of her pain. That night, I could not sleep. I had to put my pain to a song. I needed to give something back to Winnie for the sacrifice of her life to the Apartheid struggle, in which every decent human being had a stake. I saw her sacrifice as a global one, made by an African Woman, brave and courageous beyond words, for her man and her country.

Mistakes make you human. But the point is, how do you look at your mistakes? What are they there for? Nobody is infallible. You are going to forge ahead based on what you have learnt from them. When you fall down, you have to get up. Learn your lessons, get up and keep going even stronger.