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empowerment as “the process individuals or groups to make ”. Female empowerment has more to do with a changing mind set than it has to do with organizational statistics, United Nations programs or NGO agendas. We, as African It is how we as women perceive ourselves rather than how others perceive our gender, which is most important. Ultimately, the power is in our own hands. So my question to the female is: Who runs YOUR world? yet another Knight in Shining Armour to come along and empower us, when crucial to the that it stems from changes within ourselves. As Frank Outlaw said: “WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS, THEY BECOME WORDS; WATCH YOUR WORDS, THEY BECOME ACTIONS; WATCH YOUR ACTIONS, THEY BECOME HABITS; WATCH YOUR HABITS, THEY BECOME CHARACTER; WATCH YOUR CHARACTER, FOR IT BECOMES YOUR DESTINY.” 48