In a July 2015 speech to Kenyans at the Kasarani Indoor Arena, former US President Barack Obama equated society's alienation of women from development-oriented endeavours to going into a game of football without half the team.
Recently, just when the world was still coming to terms with Donald Trump's shock victory in the 2024 US presidential election, and his now-awaited return to the White House, Namibia elected her first female president.