There is also great lesson in all this for us girls and women. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is telling us and confirming to us with her example that the most viable way to confront the persisting patriarchal oppression that women are subjected to in Nigeria and across the world is to continue to hone our skills and capabilities and strive to be the best in whatever we are doing such that the men would have no option but to acknowledge and respect our excellent position and disposition. There is nothing to be gained in helping men to continue to put us down with our own devotion to acts and actions that make us more susceptible to the usual men pastime of sexual objectification of women. Imagine the glorious spectacle of the #ankaraarmy online support for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the day of her appointment by thousands and thousands of Nigerian women and the #belikengozichallenge through which many women turn up with pictures of them wearing the signature dress of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. How elevating and uplifting was this compared to the silhouette challlenge that had seen many girls and women exposing their nudity online. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has shown us that the world would respect excellence ultimately and it should be our duty and responsibility to seek and pursue that excellence for ourselves and all girls and women as a pivot to demonstrate that girls and women are ready and capable to take their pride of place even as we would not accept to be consigned to the back again. That is the message from the triumph of excellence of our own Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as we congratulate and salute her for her appointment as the new Director General of the WTO.
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Okonjo-Iweala And The Triumph Of Excellence
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