Namatai Kwekweza

“Young Zimbabwean activist to receive the 2025 German Africa Award”

“Zimbabwean activist wins German Africa Prize”

“Challenge life and inequalities like your life depend on it, because actually, it does!”

“Take action even when you are afraid”

“The future is what we make of it through what we do now”

“Young people feel disenfranchised from the country's economic activities”

“Youth must organise to claim space and power”

“Youth must act, or they risk being acted upon”

“Youth think that not voting is a protest and are not aware of how politics and decision-making processes affect their social and economic lifestyles”

“Teaching youth to participate is the most important thing today”

“The rights of youth must be respected; intimidation, imprisonment, and all human rights violations must stop to ensure youth feel safe to show up and participate”

“Older and younger generations have to participate at all levels of peace initiatives, from project management to project implementation”

“Additionally, the struggle for a better Africa would be more centered around Africans if Africans fund their own struggle”

“There is a need for youth-friendly, feminist, pan-African, and intersectional funding reforms that must happen to ensure addressing global injustices in philanthropy and funding”

“Therefore, young people can not only be bystanders in peace processes but active leaders and decision-makers”

“Young people can play a positive role in peacebuilding”

“Peace means that there is access to opportunity, reduced inequality, and systems that advance human potential through human capital development”

“Those who organise war and violence are very deliberate and intentional”

“Peace to me, means both the absence of direct violence as well as building sufficient social, economic, and political infrastructure that supports sustainable positive peace.”

“Our faith and hope in democracy are cemented by our actions today!”