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The continent is in deep trouble and women must be at the vanguard of all of kinds of struggles. And we must document the ways in which women contribute.

— Oyeronke Oyewumi

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Essentialism makes it impossible to confine biology to one realm. The social world, therefore, cannot truly be socially constructed

The frame of reference of any society is a function of the logic of its culture as a whole

For women scholars, the university is not a particularly user-friendly place. Because of this, for us to succeed, it is crucial to have structures in place such as affordable child care. This is not an individual problem that ought to be addressed by one person at a time.

We must emphasise the pathology called the modern man. When you think of modern, it is women they associate it with but when you think of what has happened as a result of colonisation of this continent it is that men have garnered all sorts of resources that were not even traditionally in the hands of men or women, these were collectively owned things.

the human submission to the will of the divine”

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