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‘I look at opportunities before looking at challenges’

Head of Marketing, Eaton Africa, Sumaya Abdool Head of Marketing, Eaton Africa, Sumaya Abdool assumed her post in June 2014, and has travelled across the continent talking about the company. The Guardian caught up with her recently in Lagos, and in this...

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'Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you'. Viola Davis

Monday Quote: Oprah Winfrey

This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too...

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As more men become more educated and women get educated; The value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility; To advocate and share, To focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings. And, if I'm lucky enough, to inspire." Megan Mrkle

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'Disciplining yourself to do that which you know is right and important although difficult; Is the high road to pride, self esteem and personal satisfaction'.   Margaret Thatcher

Elizabeth Phillips Hughes (12 July 1851 – 19 December 1925)

Born Merch Myrddin in Carmarthenshire, Elizabeth was a Welsh scholar, teacher, and promoter of women's education. She was the sister of Methodist reformer Hugh Price Hughes but had little education herself as a child. She later attended a private school in Cheetham and became a teacher...

Chief Mrs. Margaret Affiong Ekpo (27th June 1914-21st September 2006)

Born in the creek town of Cross Rivers State to Okoroafor Obiasulor and Inyang Eyo Aniemewue, she obtained her primary six certificate in 1934, and her to take up a job teaching in an elementary school after the death of her...

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Men must  defy the structures of patricahy  and outdated notions of manhood. And use that questioning to build more just societies. Winston Duke Actor/Activist

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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. Oprah...

Wednesday Quote: Gloria E Anzaldua

Gloria E Anzaldua- 'A woman who writes has power; And a woman with power is feared'.

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There is no such thing as society; There are individual men and women; And there are families   Margaret Thatcher

Questions and Answers:

Hello ma’am, I trust you are doing good. Thanks for being a leading woman and an inspiration to many. I would like to reach...

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“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be,...

The failed woman: Binta Kasim Mohammed

Where does the concept of the failed woman stem from? Society needs to redefine what failure and success are. And women themselves also need to...

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'I was inspired by a traditional African tool that has three legs and a basin to sit on.To me the three legs represent three...
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Wednesday Quote: Michelle Bachelet

Every Girl, No matter where she is born, Should be able to express her views, Live free of violence and discrimination. And have a fair chance to reach...

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Bell Hooks – September 25,1952 – December 15, 2021

"Social classifications (e.g., race, gender, sexual identity, class, etc.) are interconnected, and ignoring their intersection creates oppression towards women and changes the experience of...