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April 13, 2024 - 0 Comments

Tirunesh Dibaba, aka ” baby-faced destroyer” is the youngest athlete to win an individual gold medal in the World Championships. She was eighteen years old. She is also an Olympic medalist and a serial World...

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April 12, 2024 - 0 Comments

Our next queen of the tracks is Olympian and gold medalist Ejegayehu Dibaba, fondly called Gigi . Beautiful Gigi was also born in Bekoji, Ethiopia. Ejegayehu has of course been in the World Athletics Championships,...

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April 11, 2024 - 0 Comments

Genzebe Dibaba was born in 1991 i yesn Bekoji, Ethiopia like her sister Anna. She is the current world record holder for indoor events of one mile, 3000m and 5000m. Genzebe is also an Olympic...

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April 10, 2024 - 0 Comments

Anna Dibaba is one of and the youngest of the Dibaba beauties on the race track. They hail from Ethiopia, the land of the famous Queen of Sheba. Anna was born on the 26th of...

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April 9, 2024 - 0 Comments

The Dibaba sisters AKA “The fastest family on earth” are track and field stars from Ethiopia in the north of east Africa. These five sisters are famous for bringing home to Ethiopia, 24 medals and...

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April 8, 2024 - 0 Comments

So it is April eighth again, World Pageant Day. We get to celebrate all women of African descent, at home and in diaspora who have taken part in any beauty pageant. These women were bold...

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April 8, 2024 - 0 Comments

In 2022, Kedei Ibiang not only beat over 7,947 contestants for the Mandela Washington scholarships, she makes perfumes. Kedei, a graduate of Medicine & Surgery from University of Calabar in South-South Nigeria, was top of...

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April 6, 2024 - 0 Comments

Allyson Felix has won eleven Olympic medals as a track champion. She has won the most gold by any athlete in the history of World Athletics championship Thus breaking the record of Usain Bolt of...

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April 5, 2024 - 0 Comments

Mrs. Leon made history as the first of several in Jamaica. She was the first woman to become minister from two different political parties. First woman to chair the national political party in Jamaica and...

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April 3, 2024 - 0 Comments

Back in 1944, Iris Rhudella Collins made history at age twenty-nine when she became the first Jamaican woman of African descent elected into Jamaica’s House of Representatives. Eighty years ago, Iris Collins was the only...

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April 2, 2024 - 0 Comments

Our focus this week is Jamaica. And we are starting with the first ever, female Prime Minister of the land of several Miss World winners and of course reggae music. It took that beautiful Caribbean...

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April 1, 2024 - 0 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you, Santia Deck, a track and field woman star from South Carolina who has made history as the first woman athlete to own a shoe company. Before...

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March 30, 2024 - 0 Comments

Hi everyone, for two weeks we have celebrated women who have led African countries in the past hundred years. This celebration is not just of the women but also the countries that have gone beyond...

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March 29, 2024 - 0 Comments

Mama Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia is our trailblazer as the first elected female president in all of Africa. Mama as she is fondly called came into power at a crucial time in the history...

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March 29, 2024 - 0 Comments

Permit us to interrupt our women leaders’ series to celebrate another milestone by this special woman – Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff. She is the latest inspiration to all women, not only women of colour. It is...

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March 28, 2024 - 0 Comments

The cute and lovely land of Togo has also done well to produce her first female Prime Minister, Victoire Tomegah Dogbé. The West African country is known for her cultured and loving people. Who is...

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March 27, 2024 - 0 Comments

Our next celebrant is from Central African Republic; Catherine Samba-Panza AKA ‘Mother Courage ‘. A woman selected to lead her people in the times of war. A time of pillage and insecurity. A position even...

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March 26, 2024 - 0 Comments

It is delightful to realize that over ten women have been presidents in Africa, in the past twenty years. Now that is a start, no matter what. We believe that Africa will have more than...

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March 25, 2024 - 0 Comments

So far, Mauritius is the only country in the history of Africa, if not the world, that a woman president handed over to another female president. From acting President Agnès Bellepeau to elected President Ameenah...

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March 23, 2024 - 0 Comments

Celebrating African women who reached the peak of power in their countries, is an inspiration for future generations. From Gabon, comes Rose Francine Rogombé who was acting president of Gabon for two months- June 2009...

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