“I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.”
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I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.