Don’t Stay! Nobel Laureate Tells African Students At Yale To Return Home

Leymah Gbowee at Yale

During her visit to Yale on April 4, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee called upon the many African students in her audience to return to their native countries to take a role in Africa’s future. “It is my hope and prayer that you will decide after Yale to go back,” she told the students.

Leymah Gbowee happy to meet the new generation of African women leaders at Yale-with Dolly Constance,Zarah Baitie,Kiki Ochieng,Yaa Oparebea Ampofo and Mary Kijo Kiarie.

Gbowee, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for mobilizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate during the second civil war in Liberia, delivered the Chubb Fellowship lecture during the annual Sankofa54: Youth Empowerment Conference, sponsored by the Yale Undergraduate Association for African Peace and Development.
The peace and women’s rights activist addressed a near-capacity crowd in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, where she spoke about the pan-Africanism movement and described the steps necessary for Africa as a whole to reach its potential in the future.

Please read the article with many quotes from her speech (unfortunately their is no video available…)

Leymah Gbowee, mother of six, about the power of women and girls

Please listen to another motivating – and in fact as powerful as it is funny – speech by Leymah Gbowee:

 Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian activist  delivers a powerful talk about harnessing the power of African women to affect change. Moving between the personal and the universal, Gbowee demonstrates the impact of misogynist laws on females and broader society, and the potential in embedded in often-disenfranchised women and girls. Watch the talk that drew tears and two standing ovations from a packed Sydney Opera House.

 Please read the original story at: Yale News 

Courtesy:TheNewAfrica