African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.