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Universities and governments need to enact deliberate policies that favour women and girls.

— Mary Okwakol

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What good will it profit you if you get this paper while your young family crumbles?

Accessibility to higher education remains a big challenge particularly for students from rural Uganda.

This is a drop in the ocean when we are talking about getting more women to hold leadership positions. We still have a lot of work to do as a continent to change this.

Take good care of your health and wellbeing. The only way I manage is by doing exercise every day! It is very important that all parts of your body receive that flow of blood.

There are only 40 women vice-chancellors heading up the roughly 1,500 universities across Africa.

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