There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.