have you'll ever heard of her?
emarks by Faiza Jama Mohamed, 2008 Laureate, Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger at the Gala Award Ceremony in New York, New York on October 18. Mohamed is now based in Nairobi, Kenya where she is the Director of the Africa Regional Office of Equality Now. She is a key organizer of Solidarity for African Women's Rights, a pan-African coalition of organizations that successfully campaigned for the adoption of, and is now campaigning for the implementation of, the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa