Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.