"Being the Right Livelihood laureate gives me the strength and courage to do more what I have been doing, also more effectively. Because I feel like I'm now having more support for what I'm doing for women, girls, and children in Cameroon."

"Child marriage is a big problem in Cameroon, and I think it is necessary to have more significant support from the government and international actors. Not just in terms of policies. Policies are good. But also in terms of their implementation. We need to make sure the governments everywhere are aware of the necessity of protecting children, especially girls, as they are being dropped from schools. In addition, accessing birth certificates and child marriages are also critical issues."

"I primarily work in the far north of Cameroon, where we also face the Boko Haram crisis, which was still going on even when people talked only about the Anglophone crisis because this is maybe a very advertised crisis, but the Boko Haram crisis is still going on."

"Yes, especially for children. Sometimes I feel frustrated because all the children globally should be treated the same concerning their education, protection, health... So, I believe organizations and international actors should focus more on Africa's children's situation, especially in areas like my region, to address issues like child marriage."

"My colleagues were very happy. Then my family and our partner organizations. I received calls from everywhere. Within minutes, it was as if someone had sent the message over the airwaves."

"First and foremost, the trauma and psychological consequences are relevant. Many women have witnessed attacks. They watched their husbands murdered and their children killed in front of their eyes. They had to witness their children or themselves being kidnapped. This traumatic experience overshadows everything. Furthermore, the economic losses are enormous: many women are displaced, and if they fled the war, they did so with nothing. It is not easy to return to life traumatized and empty-handed, with children to constantly care for."

"I chose the term " self-determined" because our role cannot be one of definition or direction. We accompany, support, and encourage, but there comes a moment when a woman takes on personal responsibility, formulates her own interests, and represents and defends them to society. With our work, we open up the opportunity for independent and self-determined development for a person who has suffered violence and is traumatized"

"The authorities must immediately end the misuse of the justice system to target Alice Nkom."

"“he weaponization of the justice system to intimidate human rights defender Alice Nkom shows the authorities’ flagrant disregard for the human rights of those who defend the rights of other people."

"Do not worry for me. I believe I will be arrested in the coming days, but I will not lose sleep over this or, especially, abandon what we have begun together."

"I believe I was born this way. If there could be any influence from the environment or society, they it will do well to surpress me instead."

"I am not too surprised about myself – some will say I have an audacity of courage."

"I come from a country where we are so limited simply by the things we don’t know. And there is so much out there that we are not aware off and which exist for free."

"I meet so many people who read twitter every day, but almost never tweet. If I may beg your indulgence, please add your voice to the public dialogue!"

"I told myself to be true to me, even if I have just one day left to live. Life is so precious to live in deceit. Coming out was a way to exonerate myself and be and live free."

"It still officially describes both gay people and homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered”."

"it is sad to see opposition to homosexuality continuing despite the headlines carrying the rheorical question, “who am I to judge?”"

"I belief, we as Africans, can begin to live change once we have access to information that is vital for our well being."

"Homophobia is like a binding glue when it comes to Cameroonians. When it comes to hating LGBTQ people, they all come together."

"I totally ignored the hate tirades and focused more on the LGBTQ community in Africa which reached out to me massively. Surprisingly, I also had hundreds of support messages from people my age and my parents’ age. This response has been emotional as well as humbling."

"no one can legally arrest a homosexual because there are laws in place to defend the human rights of a homosexual, those laws are freedom and equality of treatment for all human beings."

"As an African woman, who grew up in Africa, the stereotype defines me as someone who should be submissive and usually introversive in most cases."

"Today, I have become the go to person for very sensitive information. I have become a conveyor of information from those who many not want to be seen or heard sharing any form of sensitive information."

"It started as a passion for knowledge and then of becoming an information dessiminator."

"Today, I have earned the respect of many and have been very conspicous in the general public for the various things I do represent."

"Well yes. I am Sapiosexual. I have a thing for intelligent and physically/mentally strong women."

"I have the freedom to express my sexuality without fear of arrest or vigilante execution. I am indeed privileged…"