Dr. Mukwege: The Power of Women

Oprah's Super Soul

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Oprah talks to Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of The Power of Women, Dr. Denis Mukwege. Dr. Mukwege has dedicated his life to caring for the survivors of rape and sexual violence in his home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Mukwege has operated on more than 60,000 women who have suffered unthinkable atrocities to their bodies. He has also survived several assassination attempts. Dr. Mukwege says he has a responsibility to saving these women both physically and emotionally, as well as educating men and making sure the world knows that sexual violence is still happening to women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and around the world.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the
0:07.6	most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present. Your
0:16.1	journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:23.3	So I want to say hello to you, Dr. Dennis McGwaggy. Thank you for joining me for
0:29.8	our O Talks and for our Super Soul Sunday podcast. I have to tell you I have witnessed your great
0:38.7	works on the world stage for quite some time now. And I consider this a day of honor and privilege
0:47.1	for me to be able to talk to you. So I just want to tell the world who you are. Everybody knows
0:52.8	that you want the Nobel Peace Prize and that you are a world renowned doctor and human rights
1:00.0	activists who has dedicated your life to caring for survivors of sexual violence in a way that almost
1:09.2	nobody else has in the world. And now a published author, I would have to say, I am so honored
1:16.8	to call this an Oprah book with Flatiron. You know, I believe hold heartedly in this title
1:26.5	of the power of women. And you know, I want to do something in this interview that I've never
1:31.4	done in the thousands of interviews I've done over the years. I would like to begin with a moment
1:38.4	of silence in honor and reverence to all of the lives that you saved and those that you lost.
1:58.4	Thank you for that. And I have to say that in reading the power of women, I wanted to
2:04.4	be a part of the publishing of this book and getting it out into the world. But in reading it, I thought
2:14.0	you are some kind of special human being. Obviously, the forces of life that many of us call God
2:27.0	had its hand in your life to become who you have in the world.
2:30.9	And as I read your memoir, the power of women and doctors, journey of hope and healing, I couldn't
2:37.0	help thinking that you work as a doctor who actually specialized first in maternal health. You
2:42.4	were thinking you were going to be working in maternal health, that it was faded. Mainly, I think
2:49.3	starting with both of your parents, mothers died in childbirth. So I want to know how that
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