If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our sons' girlfriends, but our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband.

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.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.