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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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March 22, 2024 - 0 Comments

The celebration of female presidents in Africa continues with Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia. She is the first female president of Ethiopia. Sahle became president in 2018 after selection by PM Abiy and approval by the...

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March 21, 2024 - 0 Comments

Sylvie kiningi of Burundi is our next celebrant on the list of African women leaders. She is the only woman that has ever served as a president and prime minister in her country. We would...

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March 20, 2024 - 0 Comments

We continue the celebration of African women leaders this episode . From the women who have served as president the longest, to the ones who spent the shortest duration as president. We have ten women...

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March 19, 2024 - 0 Comments

This series is a celebration of African women, who in recent times, are gradually coming into their own and leading their countries to success. Their countries too are surely growing out of their patriarchal mindset...

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March 18, 2024 - 0 Comments

Hello everyone. In the last three posts, we have gladly celebrated inspiring African women at the Oscars. This post is the finale part of this celebration. We have taken a few at a time because...

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