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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.

I Knew That I Was Not Doing Anything Wrong, And I Knew In My Mind I Was Doing The Right Thing. I Knew That The People Who Were Going Against Me Were Not Going Against Me For A Good Purpose. I Knew That They Were Trying To Justify Their Corruption And Misgovernance.

Having Studied Biology Really Helped Me A Lot Because I Quickly Understand How Biological Systems Work, And How They Fail, And The Tragedy Of When They Fail, Because We Are Dealing With Life Systems, And When We Hear That A Species Has Become Extinct, Or Is Threatened, You Realize That This Could Mean That This Species Will Disappear From The Face Of The Earth Forever! So That Understanding Really Gives You Energy To Do Something To Save It.

But When You Have Bad Governance, Of Course, These Resources Are Destroyed: The Forests Are Deforested, There Is Illegal Logging, There Is Soil Erosion. I Got Pulled Deeper And Deeper And Saw How These Issues Become Linked To Governance, To Corruption, To Dictatorship.

As Long As There Is No Trust And Confidence That There Will Be Justice And Fairness In Resource Distribution, Political Positioning Will Remain More Important Than Service