Until You Dig A Hole,

I Don't Really Know Why I Care So Much. I Just Have Something Inside Me That Tells Me That There Is A Problem, And I Have Got To Do Something About It. I Think That Is What I Would Call The God In Me.

Because I Was A Woman, I Was Vulnerable. It Was Easy To Vilify Me And Project Me As A Woman Who Was Not Following The Tradition Of A 'good African Woman.'

Sometimes I Feel Frustration At The Bureaucracy For Not Moving Fast Enough To Deliver In The Way That I Would Prefer. But That Is Probably Because I Have Worked For Many Years In The Civil Society, Which Tends To Move Much Faster Than Government.

It Would Be Good For Us Africans To Accept Ourselves As We Are And Recapture Some Of The Positive Aspects Of Our Culture.

African Women In General Need To Know That It's Ok For Them To Be The Way They Are - To See The Way They Are As A Strength, And To Be Liberated From Fear And From Silence.