Kadiatou Konaté

“Have faith and conviction. It's a job that hardly feeds its man. If you're not driven by faith and conviction, you can get discouraged...But you know, it's like everything else, the most important thing is to believe in what you do.”

“As for crafts and tourism, I insisted on the fact that this pandemic forces us to reflect on the internal resources to be developed to promote local tourism and, also, a local market for crafts in order to make culture accessible to women and to delve into our cultural depths for everything that rehabilitates women, everything that revalues ​​women, so that they are stronger, more combative, more dignified.”

“What I mentioned is that without engaging in politics, we can truly translate into concrete actions what politics can do by relying on a commitment that is both social and intellectual. I also spoke about equality issues and the battles that remain to be fought: the battles of education, culture... Girls are not receiving the education they would like, there is a lot of school dropout among girls and the problem of access to education, period”