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Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is a Nigerian lawyer and civil rights activist. She is the founding Director of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), a non-governmental maternal and reproductive health advocacy organization.

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The process of feminism is a process of learning, nobody was born a feminist, people grew up to learn feminism.

One of the easiest ways to liberate women is also to come up with legal jurisprudence that can help in promoting the rights of women.

Within a short period of time the reality of life would make people to understand that feminist solidarity is important, it’s key and it’s a solution to the global problem.

We will not achieve anything as a group of women if we don’t have a strong movement.

For Nigeria to be better, for Nigeria to be able to get its place in the world, Nigeria must address the gender question. If we don’t, we’ll remain where we are.

Feminism should also allow people to make choices on areas they think they believe in while we try as much as possible to convince them on those other areas that we think are non-negotiable in conversations of feminism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.