Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi

Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is a Nigerian lawyer and civil rights activist. She is the founding Director of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), a non-governmental maternal and reproductive health advocacy organization. Afolabi is an executive board member of West Africa Network for Peacebuilding and the Nigerian Women's Trust Fund. She teaches International Humanitarian Law at the University of Lagos.

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• One of the easiest ways to liberate women is also to come up with legal jurisprudence that can help in promoting the rights of women.
  • [1] Abiola speaks on an interview (November 4 2019) about women.

• We will not achieve anything as a group of women if we don’t have a strong movement.
  • [2] Abiola speaks on an interview (November 4 2019) about women.
• For Nigeria to be better, for Nigeria to be able to get its place in the world, Nigeria must address the gender question. If we don’t, we’ll remain where we are.
  • [3] Abiola speaks on an interview (November 4 2019) about women.
• The process of feminism is a process of learning, nobody was born a feminist, people grew up to learn feminism.
  • [4] Abiola speaks on an interview (November 4 2019) about women.
• Feminism should also allow people to make choices on areas they think they believe in while we try as much as possible to convince them on those other areas that we think are non-negotiable in conversations of feminism.
  • [5] Abiola speaks on an interview (November 4 2019) about women.
• Within a short period of time the reality of life would make people to understand that feminist solidarity is important, it’s key and it’s a solution to the global problem.
  • [6] Abiola speaks on an interview (November 4 2019) about women.