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I owe all that I am to my unschooled but educated parents who despite not having gone to formal school, still had the wisdom to value the education of the girl child instead of marriage, as was the case then.

— 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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