It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate – the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days – there's more love and a lot less hate!
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