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Ngozi Therese Chuma-Udeh is a Nigerian Professor of English who served as the University Orator at Anambra State University from 2012 to 2017. She is a teacher, an orator, an academic, a novelist, a poet, and an activist for women and children.

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Establishing a school is a wonderful initiative as it offers the inmates opportunities of living a better life when released into society

In our contemporary society, we say behind a very successful man there is a woman, but I don’t think it is right to place your wife or woman behind you.

Womanism takes in a lot of things, like pride for women. Womanism may say: let the woman be superior to the man to some extent; it is a kind of struggle for supremacy. But Beside Feminism is not a struggle for supremacy; it is not a fight for power; it is not a struggle.

I don’t think my orientation has changed. I am still a contemporary writer. Sometimes, I veer into feminism –the concern of women and children, not really feminism, because I have a brand of feminism I call Beside Feminism.

I believe I have something to offer to ANA. I have a great contribution to make to ANA. It doesn’t matter how many times I will be contesting; the most important thing is that there is something I want to give to ANA, and that I really want to achieve.

So feminism means work to maintain a good family; live for your family; live for your husband; let your ideas match that of your husband; move beside your husband and be one in decision and in unison. Any other thing is not feminism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ngozi Chuma-Udeh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.