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"The fact that they are always surrounded by people may have benefited them somehow."

"Parents who provided more learning and playing materials reported that their children did better."

"If we are to rethink foreign aid, as AfricAvenir is suggesting and as we discussed in the dialogue forum and the workshop today, we need to move beyond the language of ‘help’ to think of moral obligations to justice if we are serious about addressing historical and contemporary injustices not just in Africa but elsewhere in the world."

"Lately I am also interested in complex networks from two angles. That is, using genetic programming for the automatic inference of graph models for complex networks, and developing fast algorithms to determine critical nodes in complex networks."

"The potential of laying the foundation for the rise of a planetary counter-hegemony."

"We were looking for someone who could bring administrative experience, interdisciplinary research excellence and their international worldview to our Integrated Engineering program. We are lucky to now have Shahryar leading Engineering at Brock. He is already actively involved in moving the department forward."

"I am interested in research on efficient design and application of computational intelligence techniques especially evolutionary computation genetic algorithms and genetic programming, swarm intelligence, especially on particle swarm optimization, and artificial neural networks. A major application area is in optimization with a focus on combinatorial optimization, multi objective optimization, and optimization in dynamic environments."

"Patriarchal leadership styles are hierarchical, and until this paradigm shifts, women will be excluded from leadership in their religious spaces."

"The power of numbers, the intellectual capacity of women, and the lobbying capacity that women possess will help them enter those spaces and get what they want. We cannot relax before we reach our destination. We must rise again and march forward."

"I think that as women, we need a movement. You can’t do it by bureaucracy. Though we have the constitution, which we have all worked for and has set the trend towards equality, we need to look and ask, “what’s holding us up?"

"The old model of saying the man is the breadwinner and the woman is the homemaker is gone. We really have to create a new model for women to move out. The model should also sensitise a husband to see that, if she goes out, the family is still protected."

"We don’t want to be equal with men in an oppressive environment. Numbers do not tell it all. MPs can be 50:50 in parliament (fifty per cent women and fifty per cent men). This balance means nothing if people are going to bed hungry. That is not the environment that we want. We need an environment of social transformation, so I said we need to change the institutions. We need to change legislation to have both men and women are living like human beings."

"Our political imaginations have been captured by the very structures we seek to dismantle. A feminist politics must be, first and foremost, a project of decolonizing our desires for power and freedom."

"Lyn Ossome's work relentlessly exposes the gendered fault lines of capitalist accumulation in Africa. She forces us to see that the 'economy' cannot be understood without centering the violence and valorization of social reproduction."

"The labor that produces life—the cooking, cleaning, caring, and nurturing—is the invisible infrastructure upon which all other 'productive' economic activity depends. To ignore it is not just an oversight; it is an ideological commitment."

"Patriarchy is not an archaic relic but a living, breathing structure that is co-constitutive with capitalist exploitation. The crisis of social reproduction we see today is a direct result of this partnership."

"Strengthening access to safe abortion are requires a multi-tier approach, which must include:"

"For the last seven years, I have been involved in research at Kantis Fossil Site (KFS), a new paleontological site on the outskirts of Nairobi city in Kenya. KFS is dated to 3.5 million years and lies on banks of a seasonal river known as Kantis river, situated on a privately owned farm."

"The site is located on eastern arm of the Rift Valley (01.39077 S, 36.72365 E), with an elevation of 1746 meters above sea level. Although the presence of bone bed was noted in the geological survey of the Nairobi area in 1991, no systematic research had been conducted in this area prior to 2009."

"The Livingstone Safe Abortion Care Charter focuses on seven key priority areas that OBGYNs identified to address the scale of unsafe abortion – a leading cause of preventable maternal deaths and disabilities."

"At the time of reporting the site, the farm owner noted his family first saw fossilized bones valley in the mid-1970’s, but at that time the importance of the fossils as part of our national heritage was not appreciated in Kenya."

"The Maputo Protocol has helped to address harmful cultural practices, support women's and girls’ empowerment through education and employment, promote economic safety nets, and work towards a zero-rate unmet family planning needs and a zero-rate preventable maternal deaths. It has also promoted the need to pay attention to vulnerable and marginalised populations such as people living with HIV, people living with disabilities, humanitarian crises, urban informal and rural populations, adolescents and youth.. Still speaking about challenges in implementing the Maputo Protocol for your country context."

"The species was previously thought not to exist in Kenya, so this discovery has thrust Kenya once again into the limelight as the home of one of the most important archaeological discovered. That A. Afarensis existed in Highlands as well as lowland Savannah shows that it was very adaptable"

"While abortion remains a stigmatised health care matter, progress has definitely been made with the adoption of the Maputo Protocol on several issues related to gender equality and gender rights. . Speaking about challenges in implementing the Maputo Protocol for your country context."

"Their economic growth is hence blocked by the energy crisis. Due to their heavy dependence on biomass – mainly firewood, crop residues, and animal dung – they deprive the soil of essential nutrients and pose a threat to the agricultural lands due to deforestation and the resulting soil erosion."

"There has been tremendous progress especially in educating the girl child and building their capacity to enable them sit in the same employment or activity spaces as men. However there is still a lot to be done especially for women in rural areas."

"The problem of rural energy, therefore places the provision of food and other basic needs at risk. A technology which extracts a more useful and convenient form of fuel from biomass without destroying its fertilizer value than the traditional conversion method of direct combustion is highly desirable"

"Women in urban areas are more exposed to education and opportunities to grow them. This is not the case for many women in rural areas hence some are trapped in situations that forever limit their capabilities of being the best version of themselves."

"Women are key in holding a family together. Families are essential for the development and sustenance of society as a whole."

"I grew up around land cases … there was always a deep sense of frustration, so I have to say from that moment I was very much inculcated into the idea that law could both be an instrument of oppression but an instrument of social justice."

"Anaerobic digestion of agricultural residues generates biogas which can be used directly for lighting, cooking, electricity generation, or to power an IC engine for water pumping or milling. The remaining sludge forms a good fertilizer."

"In as much as we empower women to seek employment or business opportunities like men, education on the traditional values are equally important."

"Throughout the campaign experience, I have remained conscious that the ILC is a subsidiary organ of the UN that is at its most effective working in collaboration with the sixth committee. I look forward to working with the other members of the commission and those on the Sixth Committee as the commission continues its vital work in responding to the defining challenges of our generation."

"We both saw a sista in one another and from there we have shared much in our careers of knowledge building and teaching, and in our acts of rebellion against all forms of oppression."

"Mĩcere demonstrated that Black African girls were capable of learning, taking leadership and winning in a multiracial setting."

"When Kenya’s history is fully documented and shared between the people, we will be surprised at how similar were the risks we all took in various parts of the country to liberate ourselves from the colonial yoke."

"Both of us were children of resisters, human rights defenders and change makers."

"Great institutions are built through vision, hard work and dedication. That is what I am driven by. In leadership, you rarely look down upon a person because they are either a man or woman. Both do complement each other."

"There is no age when you cannot use technology. A professor at my university asked me if, at 70, he was too old to learn technology. I told him no, technology is accessible to everyone – and these days that professor carries a laptop. As long as somebody gives you the confidence you can do it. This is what is so mis- sing from so many of our girls. They need confidence. We need to de-mystify technology, there is nothing hard about using a computer."

"I continue to be involved in civil society activism on women's rights and believe in fusing academic research and 'practical' activism."

"My feminist politics evolved from childhood as I was raised in a family of strong women."

"I am attentive to power in knowledge production and transfer processes and explore these dynamics through my methodological and pedagogical choices""

"How people experience the impact of harmful laws that criminalise behaviour is directly impacted by their racial, gender, and class positioning in [their] societies.”="

"You cannot think about being a woman only from the perspective of being a woman."

"The work that we should be doing is to excavate, to rethink the very robust and broad ways that our societies understood gender."

"Students from private colleges drop out of school because they are sidelined by Higher Education Loan Board (Helb), unlike their counterparts in Public universities and colleges and private universities."

"Everything is business. Whatever profession you are in, you can still open a business in that field. Even if you don’t do it today you can still go into business after you retire."

"Everybody can take everything from you, but they cannot take what is in your head. Even if they burn your certificate, you will still have the knowledge and skills."

"A degree can be just a paper, what matters is whether or not you can deliver."

"Success is when you live a purposeful life, an intentional life and creating a positive impact on other people’s lives."