Goodreads asked Ini-Amah Lambert:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ini-Amah Lambert I’m often asked this question. Most of the time my answer is I don’t know. However, I saw a vacuum and decided to fill it. Based on what I see and hear, there’s so much financial illiteracy, and wastage especially among the youth.

Also, people are so imbued with myths and misconceptions about equity investment that will make you marvel. That triggered in me a burden to contribute my quota in bringing financial literacy and investment education home.

In addition to that, as a kid raised by both parents being civil servants, nay, secondary school teachers, I hated the job—teaching. Why? Because my parents were always struggling financially, I thought it was exclusively their job that made them poor then. These personal experiences sparked in me a certain quest for freedom from childhood. This book is a milestone in that quest—something my parents should have known way back then.

Not much work has been done in this aspect of wealth creation, especially by indigenous authors. Having said that, however, I can only explain as much. I believe that every great story chooses its writer, or protagonist. Like the story of David and Goliath, David was chosen as the protagonist, to be decorated by God. My inspiration came from God. I chose engineering. This book chose me.

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