Changing the narrative on Africa.
Anna Libana’s phone glowed persistently in the subdued light of the lobby as she scrolled through messages and notes, while the corridors of COP30 in Belém buzzed with delegates rushing between sessions.
Mwangala Lethbridge often pictures Zambia’s leadership spaces, cabinet rooms, boardrooms, and corporate meetings, as a table of ten seats, nine taken by men.
In the bustling Dakar suburb of Keur Mbaye Fall, social entrepreneur Astou Sakho has transformed a beloved local beverage sourced from hibiscus flowers into a resource for the socioeconomic empowerment of women across Senegal.
Khadmalla Abo Abass Ali arrived in Nairobi as a refugee from Sudan, but is now the proud owner of a café where the Sudanese diaspora comes to find comfort, community and healing.
With the presidential election just around the corner, Ivory Coast is a country abuzz with anticipation. The election is also an opportunity that only comes so often for Carelle Laetitia Goli. The lawyer is on a mission to get young women to enter politics — a challenge that is a major issue for societies globally.
In the back yard of a suburban home, a small family has a thriving agricultural business, proving that thanks to new techniques, inner-city farming is not only possible, it can also be profitable.
The Nissan SUV in the workshop looks like it took several days to be worked on. It’s finally time to start it up and return it to the owner. And so Memory Bere, carrying a battery to get it going, walks over. She’s wearing a black shirt inscribed “Work Hard, Dream Big”. Selecting a spanner, she installs the battery. It doesn’t have enough power to start the car.
M’ma Camara has chartered an exceptional path in the Ivorian media landscape, navigating television studios and the demands of field reporting. As the first female video journalist in Côte d’Ivoire, she has made her mark in a field long considered a male domain.
Period pains led investment banker Harriet Chebet to herbal products after her return to Kenya. Now, the herbs are the basis of her thriving herbal
From classrooms in Ogun State to policy summits in Nairobi, African women are reshaping leadership by drawing from their own experiences. New models are emerging