Leading Ladies: Yawa Hansen-Quao at TEDxYouthInspire 2010 @ Accra

A women's empowerment activist, Yawa firmly advocates, "one cannot love an Africa one does not know." Believing that women must play a central role in spurring economic and social advancement in Africa, she supports travel as a tool to "transform people without permission".
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