Ngozi Chuma-Udeh

“In our contemporary society, we say behind a very successful man there is a woman, but I don’t think it is right to place your wife or woman behind you.”

“I believe I have something to offer to ANA. I have a great contribution to make to ANA. It doesn’t matter how many times I will be contesting; the most important thing is that there is something I want to give to ANA, and that I really want to achieve.”

“So feminism means work to maintain a good family; live for your family; live for your husband; let your ideas match that of your husband; move beside your husband and be one in decision and in unison. Any other thing is not feminism.”

“Womanism takes in a lot of things, like pride for women. Womanism may say: let the woman be superior to the man to some extent; it is a kind of struggle for supremacy. But Beside Feminism is not a struggle for supremacy; it is not a fight for power; it is not a struggle.”

“I don’t think my orientation has changed. I am still a contemporary writer. Sometimes, I veer into feminism –the concern of women and children, not really feminism, because I have a brand of feminism I call Beside Feminism.”

“Establishing a school is a wonderful initiative as it offers the inmates opportunities of living a better life when released into society”

“What your administration is doing at the center is wonderful because society is dependent on it. She said if the people coming into the center-left exactly how they were when they came to the center, society would suffer the consequences”