"Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies."

"Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same."

"We are all responsible. We are all complicit. White T-shirts catch the light. What matters is what we then do with th…"

"We have a saying: “A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.” So…"

":1. Join the support network even if your own community is not plagued with conflict or violence. Most women only tak…"

":2. Develop a solid and consistent leadership base. The leadership of most African women’s initiatives functions very…"

":3. Reach out to the un-converted. My final point comes from my 12-year-old daughter. For her, the feminist message i…"

"All across Africa, even in the midst of the deepest and darkest civil war, women are still proving that we can hold c…"

"How to describe the excitement of that first meeting...? There were women from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal…"

"We are tired of war. We are tired of running. We are tired of begging for bulgur wheat. We are tired of our children …"