Women Born In The 1960s

"I have aimed to make my own contributions through creating a fellowship programme that offers opportunities for young African women to competently and confidently articulate feminist ideas for change in order to champion change in the male dominated spaces that shape their lives."

"I head a policy research unit at Kings College London on conflict, security and development, direct a peace and security Fellowship programme for African women and teach."

"In 2017, it was rewarding to receive the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, which allowed me to work on prostate cancer risk among men with institutions in Nigeria, including the University of Ilorin, and Covenant University."

"The foods of today and tomorrow have been carefully designed to alleviate the problems associated with hidden hunger that are responsible for dietary-related diseases and of course, a short life span."

"I have worked for many years in the field of international security, a field populated largely by male experts and often dominated by male-led military and security establishments."

"The programme exposes African women to current thinking and national, regional and international institutions involved in tackling conflict, peace and security in Africa."

"You don’t have to strive to be liked but always strive to be respected for your work."

"I see the work that I do as a calling – the scientific discoveries that we achieve impact lives and that gives me the strength to wake up the next morning and keep going."

"Women in research, especially biomedical research, face many obstacles and discrimination. Earlier in my career, the perception was that a woman had to choose between having a family and a career."

"My ammunition for overcoming this discrimination is hard work and undeniable productivity and output."

"The Global Oncology Clinical Trials Congress for blacks is very dear to my heart given the underrepresentation of the black population in clinical trials."

"In Nigeria, while I was at the University of Ife, one of the things that I (and so many women) had to deal with was the sexual predators."

"In the United States, what I have experienced as a woman is gender discrimination. It is coincidental that the earliest recollection of gender discrimination that I experienced was made by a female professor when I was in graduate school. The female professor told me that I would not be able to finish my graduate programme because I got married and was pregnant in my first year of graduate school"

"As far back as 2009, my leadership in health disparities research was recognised by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Association of Black Health-System Pharmacists with the inaugural leadership award for health disparities. I was selected by the US Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to give the inaugural Barbara Terry-Koroma Health Disparity Legacy Lecture in 2013."

"I can't see that happening because the White Paper has been approved by Parliament, even the Decadal Plan, so the wheels are running. And at the end of the day, the politicians can't stall the momentum at which this is going. I mean, they may be able to chirp about certain things, but the doing is actually in the hands of the scientists. And therein lies, you know, some of the frustrations we feel are scientists. We come from a sporting nation. I mean, you know, we all know that the Springboks (national rugby team) are playing on Saturday. There'll be an overwhelming voice of support for that level of stuff. When it comes to politics, we are all very opinionated. You know we can, we can air our opinions, whether we have supported the evidence, etcetera. But at least with the science, even though we don't get the same recognition as scientists and what science can do, the value of science is that it is evidence based. There's a line of evidence, a chain of evidence in terms of support of what it is we are doing. But sadly, during the COVID era, the trust in science was kind of obliterated. And so we have a lot of work to do to rebuild the trust, the confidence and to allow people to see why science, whether it is the, you know, the physical sciences, the hard sciences or the social sciences, to just stand back a little and watch the way science rolls in motion."

"Yes, the private sector is dependent on the public sector to produce the students. And they wait at the end of the pipeline and they suck them all up. So, yes, public-private partnerships early on are desirable, but I think there are challenges on all sides. I'm not so sure I'm not an economist, but I get a sense that, you know, having just been squeezed through the COVID pandemic, that there's challenges on all sides. So let's just hope that in years to come, there's better will, and that the private sector is more amenable to putting in more money into the system."

"AORTIC is the premier organisation for cancer research and training in Africa. As the chair of the AORTIC research committee, I work with outstanding cancer scientists within and outside Africa to provide scientific leadership and direction for cancer research in Africa."

"I commit to maintain and exemplify the highest standards of scientific integrity and agree to follow the Academy’s Code of Conduct."

"You are what you eat and what you eat determines your life span and to eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an act.”"

"In this case, regardless of the mirror’s size—whether 39, 100, or even 200 meters—a ground-based telescope cannot solve the fundamental problem in asteroseismology: the detection of certain pulsation modes that remain unobserved. The limitation arises from the alternation of day and night. For instance, even with the largest ground-based telescopes, such as the VLT, observations can only be made at night. This daily interruption creates gaps in the data, meaning that when we record a star’s brightness over time—its light curve—we obtain an incomplete sequence, marked by interruptions caused by the Earth’s rotation."

"The black population is disproportionately affected by cancer globally. I worked with several experts and institutions"

"INSIGHT into Diversity, an online and print publication in the United States, gave me the Inspiring Women in STEM Award in 2016 in recognition of my effort in training underrepresented minorities for over two decades."

"In Congo, we are probably at the stage where Germany was about 25 years ago. The difficulties start with the Internet, which does not work well. Congolese students therefore have difficulty following the latest research."

"The level is very high and I do there what I cannot achieve in Congo. Both parties benefit from this close cooperation because the Institute obviously does not have direct access to tropical diseases and the required samples."

"I created the country's first molecular biology laboratory at the University of Brazzaville, the capital of Congo. If this project worked, it was only thanks to the support of my colleagues in Tübingen."

"Raised in a family of six children, being the only girl and the eldest facing a demanding father, I learned competition and above all to never feel diminished because I was a woman."

"Since the great demonstration for women's right to vote on June 21, 1908 in London, the place of women in society has improved and, of course, this change is visible in universities where more and more young girls are enrolled."

"In the Republic of Congo, there is no research culture yet. In Germany, it is a given that students also give their opinions and that discussions result. In Congo, the importance of exchanging ideas has not yet been grasped. However, in research, what counts are new ideas, and discussions are necessary."

"They are ghostly… The Congolese Foundation for Medical Research (FCRM) is a unique example in the country, and probably in Central Africa: operating with public and private subsidies, it conducts research activities directly linked to the health of the Congolese population and the training of young Congolese."

"I started studying in France, where I passed my medical exam and my state doctorate. When I returned to Africa,I wanted to specialize in a field of research that is important to my compatriots. Malaria kills thousands of people in Africa every year. I want not only to fight this disease."

"The dynamism of research is assessed by indicators such as publications and patents. With regard to biomedical research, which is my field, the African continent bears the heaviest burden of disease in the world, but it is also the continent that invests the least in research, development and innovation."

"Right in the heart of the Antarctic continent, in one of the coldest, most deserted and inaccessible places in the world."

"There is no soul that lives less than 1,000 miles away. The place is located at 3200 meters, but the weather is as if we were at 4000 meters. Installing an observatory in such an environment resembles a space mission in that we must check all the atmospheric parameters (turbulence, transparency, scintillation (twinkling), aurora, etc.)."

"The critical mass of qualified personnel capable of validly serving the needs of research does not exist. Which means that research teams are generally shaky."

"Astronomy also investigates and explains the origin and evolution of the phenomena associated with such objects, like supernova explosions, gamma rays, quasars, blazars, pulsars and cosmic microwave background radiation."

"Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences in the world. It is the study of all extraterrestrial objects, that is, those existing outside the Earth or its atmosphere, such as the solar system that consists of our star, the sun, and the objects that orbit it, the Moon, galaxies, planets and comets."

"I accept this award with humility and joy, and I am excited to join fellow distinguished individuals at the ceremony. I look forward to celebrating the accomplishments of brilliant young female Muslims and engaging in discussions that further our mission of peace and understanding."

"This is a unique place where prevailing conditions are of extreme cold, isolation, and where it is night several months of the year. It then becomes possible to observe the stars on a continuous basis."

"Astronomy was used to measure time, mark seasons and navigate oceans based on predictions about the positions of the sun, the Moon and the planets, while stars have helped people to navigate the Earth by lighting up the night."

"I have obtained my PhD degree and was promoted to assistant professor at the Institute of Endemic diseases in 2002, whilst also spending 6 months at CIMR as Post doctoral fellow."

"In 2004-2007 I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Development Award which helped me to start an independent scientific career at my home country, and to spend 3 months in CIMR every year to complete my research."

"I am co investigator and principal investigator for many projects."

"By studying the movements of people across eastern Sudan we have discovered that there is a clear difference in people’s susceptibility to leishmaniasis disease."

"By understanding which genes are responsible, therapies could be developed against the infectious disease."

"This is because it mainly affects people in the isolated areas and does not reach the larger cities. It is also hard for those infected with leishmaniasis to reach the hospitals for treatment because they are so ill."

"“One of the major results of the stimulation of your intellectual life that occurs in the College is the shrinking of your spiritual life. Sometimes, students get so confused with reconciling their classroom activities with the clashing of so many faiths that their spiritual live begins to weaken tremendously"

"We have a commitment to equip you with the requisite skills and competencies that would empower you to contribute your quota to the development efforts of this country."

"Our security network has been further enhanced to tackle the menace of cultism and other social vices coupled with our added leverage in skills development through our flexible skills development potentials"

"We do expect maximum cooperation from you as students to enable us accomplish the set objectives for which the STE was established.”"

"I did not want to be insensitive to my culture, I did not want to be insulting, but I wanted to be as honest and realistic as possible."