Victoria Mwaka

Victoria Mwaka is a Ugandan geography professor, politician and women's-rights activist based in Luweero district, Uganda. She holds a PhD in Geography attained from Makerere University.

Quotes

 * Teachers should not die poor. We need to leave a legacy and retire from service to live a happy life. As I serve the nation through extending service to the girl-child, I implore fellow teachers to also live an entreprising life and outlive the notion where society believes that teachers should die poor.
 * Speaking on teacher's ability to leave a legacy and inspire others to work of the good of the community.


 * While many western male students fully paid attention and believed in my work, several of their African counterparts did not take me serious yet i was fully responsible for their respective future as PhD students.
 * Speaking on the challenges of supervising male Phd Students who did not believe in the leadership if women.


 * Upward mobility of women would not be difficult if it were not for gender biases and the multiple responsibilities a woman carries in a community. Some people think women are supposed to be average in anything and yet if a man gets average, he will not be happy.
 * Speaking on women still held back by biases.