I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
“There’s neither need nor justification to wallow in the trough of mediocrity.” — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
