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Victoria Mwaka
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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
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.
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.
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.
Speaking on women still held back by biases.
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