Victoria Mwaka
Ugandan politician
Victoria Mwaka is a Ugandan geography professor, politician and women's-rights activist based in Luweero district, Uganda. She holds a PhD in Geography attained from Makerere University.
Quotes
edit- Teachers should not die poor. We need to leave a legacy and retire from service to live a happy life. As I serve the nation through extending service to the girl-child, I implore fellow teachers to also live an entreprising life and outlive the notion where society believes that teachers should die poor.
- [1] Speaking on teacher's ability to leave a legacy and inspire others to work of the good of the community.
- While many western male students fully paid attention and believed in my work, several of their African counterparts did not take me serious yet i was fully responsible for their respective future as PhD students.
- [2] Speaking on the challenges of supervising male Phd Students who did not believe in the leadership if women.
- Upward mobility of women would not be difficult if it were not for gender biases and the multiple responsibilities a woman carries in a community. Some people think women are supposed to be average in anything and yet if a man gets average, he will not be happy.
- [3] Speaking on women still held back by biases.
