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Dzodzi Tsikata is a Ghanaian feminist, academic, professor of Development Sociology and Director of Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana.

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Sustainable development cannot be achieved without addressing the structural inequalities that persist in our societies.

Anyone who declares himself/herself to be a feminist cannot fail to recognize the connection between women's rights and the right to land.

The struggle for land is essentially feminist.

We must center the voices and experiences of marginalized communities in our quest for social justice.

Women are forgotten individuals with disproportionate level of income due to poverty and deprivation.

State's lack of attention to inequality and oriented petriachal rule as an underpinning viable that requires remedial action to provoke viable state society relations.

Women's rights affect many interconnected spheres that cannot be separated. If one focuses only on one aspect and ignores the rest, women's rights are not realized.

Without land control, women are second-class citizens. They also deny the right to work as farmers, because it is unthinkable to be a farmer without access to land.

Feminist don't only fight for their welfare but to make the entire society better, the only way to reduce the ill thoughts about feminism and it's goals is to encourage more young women to openly take part in the worthy cause.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dzodzi Tsikata (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.