When You Know Who You Are You

Disempowerment - Whether Defined In Terms Of A Lack Of Self-confidence , Apathy, Fear, Or An Inability To Take Charge Of One's Own Life - Is Perhaps The Most Unrecognised Problem In Africa Today.

I Learned In America A Long Time Ago, The Three R's, The Principle Of Three R's - Reuse, Reduce, Recycle. And As I Say Those Words, There Are So Many Things Individually We Can Do To Reduce - We Don't Need To Consume As Much As We Are Consuming. Reduce. And By Reusing, We Can Reuse A Lot Of Things We Just Throw Into The Dumpsite. And Reduce The Production. The More We Reuse, The More We Can Reduce.

We Have A Responsibility To Protect The Rights Of Generations, Of All Species, That Cannot Speak For Themselves Today. The Global Challenge Of Climate Change Requires That We Ask No Less Of Our Leaders, Or Ourselves.

In The Course Of History, There Comes A Time When Humanity Is Called To Shift To A New Level Of Consciousness, To Reach A Higher Moral Ground. A Time When We Have To Shed Our Fear And Give Hope To Each Other. That Time Is Now.

It Was Easy To Persecute Me Without People Feeling Ashamed. It Was Easy To Vilify Me And Project Me As A Woman Who Was Not Following The Tradition Of A 'good African Woman' And As A Highly Educated Elitist Who Was Trying To Show Innocent African Women Ways Of Doing Things That Were Not Acceptable To African Men.