"Today, for her tireless leadership in public service and her fearless advocacy for equity and diversity, Akande will receive a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of Toronto."

"I felt I could do more on the outside, which I continued to do working for long-term care and integrated services for children."

"I followed my intuition and started to learn all kinds of art techniques to assist the patients by art therapy. Weaving I liked best. I felt very little satisfaction when following fixed patterns or working out of the themes that teachers provided me with. I could feel that was not my thing."

"“I am very proud of her,” says her son, William. “She is our queen, queen of Ndebele, and our happy mascot.”"

"“I want them to take away a sense of excitement, a sense of how vibrant the arts are in Africa,”"

"This culture must not die. Our young people are vandalising our traditions. This is why I try to motivate them"

"You don’t get to dictate the terms under which the work you put out there is received. “Mlle Bourgeoise Noire” is an extremely directed body of work. This trilogy that I did, [it was all about] what’s wrong with the art world, and what we need to do to remedy it. That work became so popular that it just took over. It’s been a bit of a struggle to get the other work—which is more what I consider the core of what I’m about, the anti-binary argument and all that—that’s a little bit harder to establish, I’ve found. "Lorraine O'Grady Has Always Been a Rebel" The New Yorker (interview by Doreen St. Felix published on September 29, 2022)"

"دلم گرفته است"

"ترا میخواهم و دانم که هرگز"

"the country had respects for its citizens who had done creditably well in their chosen careers."

"...هوس در دیدگانش شعله افروخت"

"Readers will discover what he ultimately receives and enjoy the series of captivating adventures that follow. This tale promises to delight children with its blend of curiosity, family dynamics, and festive surprises."

"Children will enjoy reading this book to find out the answers and other fascinating adventures of Ade."

"It was only a small canoe. We could only go two by two, but in our group there were babies who were with their parents."

"We had just set up home. We ended up closing the door, taking only the clothes that were necessary."

"There were very hard moments though."

"I worried the secret police would use our daughter to pressure us and said this to my husband. He said when a person joins this sort of thing, they have to be prepared for anything. It wasn’t easy."

"In my year at Manchester about 10% of the class were women. Many had been discouraged from applying to do law."

"All this leaves its mark on a 20-year-old woman. When people started talking about our liberation, I saw reasons to join the fight."

"When I came to study in Portugal, Guilherme’s family welcomed me, and took me to visit the families of the other political prisoners in Tarrafal."

"Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law."

"The objection that one cannot legislate to change "the hearts and minds of men" is a red herring, when the law seeks to hit at actions not at attitudes."

"We are not satisfied that complaints against the security forces are always investigated with the vigour which they deserve if public confidence in the general conduct of the security forces is to be maintained."

"I was soon to learn that Manchester was unusual in its favourable gender balance in 1968."

"I was lucky. God blessed me with a great opportunity to learn. I lived in a house filled with books, and so reading and the love for books became rooted in me."

"Once they were in the colony there was almost total silence about their lives."

"my late father was ahead of his time in so many things…in his progressive thinking, in his belief in freedom and equality between boys and girls, especially in their upbringing. He believed boys and girls should be raised the same, without discrimination.”"

"I treated my students the same way I was treated, and that is why I have a wonderful relationship with my students at Cairo University. I consider them my children, and when children grew, we must befriend them"

"We were told that in two days we would be leaving and that we could only take 5kg."

"you must be strong and independent, while also being flexible. How would you be strong and independent if you have not experienced any of life’s responsibilities? You must get the chance to learn to be responsible for yourself."

"I was not under suspicion because I was studying on a loan given by the Portuguese Youth Organisation, a movement led by the fascist government and based, I came to understand, on the Hitler Youth. What the police wanted to do was warn me not to mix with those ‘communists’ at the house of the students of the empire."

"the only way to become a better human being is to think critically. You must be able to respect yourself, and to think critically."

"The macroeconomic policies presentedin the NGP are mixed. The monetarypolicy on the one hand commits to lowerreal interest rates and continued targetingof low and stable inﬂation."

"Mum was extremely generous and would constantly beg us, despite our protestations, to let her know if we needed anything even till she breathed her last. She lived life on her own terms. She did it her way. Mum, it’s so long, but not goodbye. You now belong to the ages… Requiescat in pace."

"What are the distributional implications of halving poverty in South Africa when growth alone is not enough."

"She was my greatest cheerleader, supporter and critic, especially after dad passed. I am grateful to God that she lived to see me elevated to the Inner Bar."

"Mum was a disciplinarian though not in the physical sense – as to the latter at best she might use her slippers, but the truth was she was no dab hand and couldn’t beat anyone to save her life! We would usually just pretend to cry so she could let us go, whilst we ran off to have a good laugh."

"If mum asked you to clean her bathroom, you were best advised to go over it with a fine toothcomb. Her eagle eyes would unfailingly spot that area that you’d carelessly – or perhaps lazily – overlooked and she’d make you clean it to perfection. I got my eye for detail from her. We would grumble under our breath and wonder why she was nit-picking. Today, I’m grateful."

"A new growth path for South Africa."

"It’s so long, but not goodbye."

"My earliest memories of mum were of me being a very clingy child and never wanting to leave her side. This usually resulted in a two-year old me bolting from playgroup and finding my way home to my stunned parents. They would sing, “Isa nsa ma tun de, a le ko lo ko le lo!” I would cry, but simply do it again. I also remember constantly pressing mum’s upper arm as a child, deriving much comfort from it. She always allowed me."

"My parents encouraged us to read, read, read. Books, Encyclopaedia, comics, magazines, you name it. We got our love of literature, poetry and history from them, especially mum. English Literature was one of my favourite subjects, as was History, no surprises. From Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to The Iliad and The Odyssey to Soyinka’s The Man Died to Achebe’s No Longer at Ease/Things Fall Apart, to poetry The Journey of the Magi, to The Renaissance, she broke it down effortlessly for me."

"Growing up with mum was, well, rather interesting. We did so many house chores we could not but wonder why, given that we had domestic help. Sweeping, scrubbing, dusting, kitchen chores, polishing the wooden stairs with a coconut husk, you name it. As I grew into adulthood it all made perfect sense. And I’m very grateful for that training."

"The student who doesn't want to learn has come again. We sent her away, but she refused to go."

"Without consciously realising it my mum was my first female role model. Seeing her just get out there and doing it meant I never once thought of myself as a disadvantaged female. She gained her Ph.D in Literature in English after her first three children were born. She became a professor (one of the first five female professors in Nigeria) and reached lofty heights all of which I took for granted and thought was the norm; indeed, as I grew up and entered the world of employment it was a rude shock to realise that the reality was far different for many women. By then it was too late for me to think of myself as anything but able, unhampered by the little detail of being female. For that I am thankful."

"Mum was an intrepid traveller and together with dad, and sometimes alone, visited far flung places. Funlayo and I inveigled ourselves on to some of those trips. I am glad and thankful to God that in the last few decades of her life I also, was able to take her to new places."

"The South African governmentrecently released a new economic policyframework, the New Growth Path (NGP).This policy is intended to facilitate ‘arestructuring of the South Africaneconomy to improve its performance interms of labour absorption as well as thecomposition and rate of growth’ (EconomicDevelopment Department)."

"My mother was strong-willed, but calm and patient. And I, well, I was just plain old stubborn and impatient to boot. There were some, uhm, memorable fights, but generally she was the calm to my storm."

"Thank you for such a stimulating and often controversial presentation. As they say: "Three Jews, four different opinions"."

"We apologise for holding this meeting during the month of Ramadan. We have begun at 6.30 to allow the Parliamentarians to arrive. One of the functions of the Trust is to promote intellectual debate in post democratic South Africa. We produce a pamphlet of these monthly meetings. Many thanks to Leslie Liddell."