As International Women’s Day unfolds, it is a moment to honor and celebrate the resilience, achievements, and contributions of women across the vast and diverse continent of Africa. This day serves not only as a reminder of progress made but also as a call to action for the challenges that still persist.
Here are a few African women who have made impact in their Territorial Space and across Africa
Mariam Ibrahim, one of the few woman borehole engineers in north-east Nigeria, has built over 200 boreholes and aims to repair 10,000 more. In a male-dominated field, she challenges stereotypes, wand wants to inspire women to join her cause for clean water in their community.
Elizabeth Korolo and Abdulsalam Ajara are two school girls from Makoko-Lagos suburban who invented a water purifying device which turns contaminated water into safe drinking water.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Africa’s first woman president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf gained international recognition as a formidable politician, activist, and economist. She was born in Liberia and studied at Harvard University, later becoming the first democratically elected female head of state of Liberia.
I use my words to raise the alarm on the conflicts of our time…in the hopes that someone might hear something that moves them,” says Emi. In 2016, she was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and has visited refugee camps in Jordan, Uganda, and Greece, teaching poetry workshops and inspiring countless refugees to share their story.
Meaza Ashenafi is the first female Chief Justice of Ethiopia and a trailblazer in many ways, mainly for legal advocacy through her work with Ethiopian Women’s Lawyers Association (EWLA), an organization she co-founded with like-minded young female lawyers. After finishing law school from Addis Ababa University, of which she was the only female graduate from her class year, she served as a criminal court judge, which allowed her to see first-hand how the laws were discriminating against women.
To every power woman Out in AFRICA and the world at large. We celebrate and appreciate you sincerely.
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