Doo Aphane
A pioneer Human Rights Activist in Swaziland. Great insight into African women's realities as second-class citizens.
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Antonia Mutoro
First Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR). Prior to joining IPAR, she held various responsibilities as an academic in senior management positions in Higher Education in Rwanda.
Maria Sarungi Tsehai
Founder & Director of Production, Compass Communication Company Ltd, Tanzanian public broadcaster, producer of Miss Universe Tanzania beauty pageant; founding member Tanzania Independent Producers (TAIPA). Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Vision Awards (UK).
Philippa Reiss Thorne
Managing Director, Gone Rural, Swaziland. Impacting hundreds of rural women by creating jobs through high-quality hand-crafts. During Philippa's tenure, she has doubled business turnover, quadrupled artisan incomes, and fostered a positive economic impact on Swaziland’s rural communities by enabling women to earn money while maintaining their customary lifestyle.
Gcina Mhlophe
International Professional Story Teller, writer, director, and author. Gcina has worked tirelessly for the past 11 years running NOZINCWADI - Mother of Books Literacy Campaign to help make South Africa a reading nation.
Immy Kamarade
Managing Director & Founder of Dallas Investments Ltd, and Chairperson, Rwanda Women Entrepreneurs' Chamber of the Private Sector Federation. A serial board member, Immy makes a difference in every industry she touches.
Hilina Belete
Deputy General Manager of Hilina Enriched Food Processing. Ms Belete is a young woman who understands being young is not an obstacle, but an opportunity.
Sara Abera
Fashion designer and founder of Muya Ethiopia P.L.C. Sara has created hundreds of community jobs through export and innovation. Muya won a first place Millennium Award for woman exporters in the handloom sub-sector.
Olive Luena
CEO of Tanzania Gatsby Trust; nominee for the Africa Hunger Prize. In 1990, she was appointed by Pope John Paul II as a member of the Vatican Pontifical Council of the Laity and was recently appointed by the president of the United Republic of Tanzania as a trustee to the Presidential Trust Fund, her third appointment. A real leading lady!
Mulumebet Iori
Founder of Byogenic Beauty Spot. A pioneer in the Ethiopian beauty industry, Mulumebet founded a beauty education training centre launching approximately 700 Ethiopians into the Ethiopian job market. Also co-founder of GMM Garment P.L.C.
Modesta Lilian Mahiga
Founder & Group Managing Director, Professional Approach Group, Lawyer and Human Rights activist, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Meaza Ashenafi
Chairperson Enat Bank, Lawyer & Women Activist in Ethiopia. Meaza contributed to the inclusion of women and children’s rights provisions in the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia. She was identified as one of the five prominent women’s rights activists worldwide.
Samrawit Moges Beyene
Founder & Managing Director of Travel Ethiopia. A leader, multi-business owner, pioneer, a true trailblazer in the travel industry and inspiration to many women in Ethiopia and aboard.
Nigest Haile
Founder & Executive Director of Center for African Women Economic Empowerment (CAWEE) in Ethiopia. Nigest received an award from the Department of State, United States of America, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to the development of women-led businesses. Nigest invests in the international potential of women.
Yetnebersh Nigussie
Educator, Director, Founder from Ethiopia. "It is not your inabilities, but your abilities that make the woman." An inspirational woman who believes her blindness does not interfere with her 99 abilities. Perspective is everything.