If I had acted like a head of state, that would have never worked - Catherine Samba-Panza

Samba-Panza became the first female president of her country, and one of the few on the continent. Women were overjoyed, both on the streets of Bangui and in the parliament that had elected her. Her gender was decisive to her political rise,

Girls have to get much more interested in public matters, in international matters, and [they must] affirm themselves by making frank, open, honest commitments in the area of the protection of women’s rights, in the area of politics and in all other sectors. Sometimes when women are questioned on this or that subject, we are less informed than the boys.

Women of the country said: We have had enough of hostilities between men. A female leader would be less violent, less aggressive, less hungry for power,