I Would Like To Call On Young

I Don't Believe [africa] Is Ready To Shift - And She Needs To Shift. So She Needs To Get The Technology And She Can Only Get That Technology From The Developed World.

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.'

The American Government Has Spent A Lot Of Money Trying To Reclaim, For Example, The Everglades, And To Allow The Natural Vegetation At The Coastal Areas To Be Restored Because That Was Part Of The Vegetation That Actually Protected The Hinterlands.

I Have Seen A Lot Of Men, For Example, Who Will Make A Will And Include Their Daughters Whether They Are Married Or Not. And Perhaps The Greatest Change Of Attitude Is That Today, At Least In Kenya, If You Don't Send Your Child To School - Unless It's A Matter Of Poverty Or Religion, And It Is Not That There No Schools - Then People Wonder, "why The Hell Don't You Send Your Children To School?" Now That's A Very Big Jump From When I Was Going To School And Educating Girls Was An Exception To The Rule.

I Learned In America A Long Time Ago, The Three R's, The Principle Of Three R's - Reuse, Reduce, Recycle. And As I Say Those Words, There Are So Many Things Individually We Can Do To Reduce - We Don't Need To Consume As Much As We Are Consuming. Reduce. And By Reusing, We Can Reuse A Lot Of Things We Just Throw Into The Dumpsite. And Reduce The Production. The More We Reuse, The More We Can Reduce.