2 of us women from Prison Fellowship Cameroon participated at this conference (in the delegation from SW Region) where women’s participation in politics in Africa was seen to have evolved and Operation 50/50 was advocated. The president of Prison Fellowship Cameroon gave her 1995 UN conference speech on women in Beijing experience, as a participant and resource person, urging women to have confidence in themselves and be heavily involved in active politics going in as Mayors, Parliamentarians, Senators and not just supporters of men.