Clear Quote by Sheryl WuDunn

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

— Ousmane Sembene

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the…

— Richard Attias

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to…

— Miriam Makeba

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human…

— Steven Biko

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

— Melinda Gates

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

— Mo Ibrahim

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to…

— Mariella Frostrup

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

— Dalia Mogahed

There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become…

— Danai Gurira

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon