"Well, that experience forced me out of the comfort zone and reminded me I was still an African woman who must fight any injustice for the sake of those coming after me. I am happy I emerged victorious and will go down in history in having helped formalise the status of the Nairobi duty station after it had existed informally for over 40 years, without [there being] an independent position of an under-secretarygeneral to function as a leader created by the General Assembly. In other words, before my struggle, the position of an independent director general for the Nairobi duty station did not exist."
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