Former Liberian President, Helen Johnson Sirleaf, and the Senator representing Imo West, Rochas Okorocha, have urged African women to break male domination in Africa and take centre stage in the politics and economy of the continent.Sirleaf is the President of the Rochas Foundation College of Africa .
He urged the Liberian former leader to continue to inspire and motivate African women to rise up and contribute their quota in the socio-economic development of the continent.According to him, “Nigeria has the highest rate of marginalization of women in the whole of Africa, but women have a key role to play in the development of African continent. We must encourage women to be more active in governance. Now having broken the jinx I pray you to help Nigerian and African women to do the same”.
Sirleaf noted that “African women are making their marks in leadership, some of them are Ministers, others are junior Ministers, some of them are seeing themselves to the highest level of leadership.“We want to break through the male domination in any area and at every level. Immediately we do that women will be able to contest positions and we don’t want to see them stopped because of tradition,” Sirleaf said.