African Women Who Fought for Economic Empowerment
3 women in the archive worked for women's economic empowerment. They came from different countries and different centuries, but each of them saw a wrong that others accepted and set out to change it. Read their stories to see how the same cause looked from very different lives.
3 women in the archive
IndependenceAnnie Jiagge
Ghanaian jurist who became the first woman judge in the Commonwealth of Nations and the principal drafter of the 1967 UN declaration that grew into CEDAW, the world's bill of rights for women.
ContemporaryGrace Mary Mugasa
Ugandan politician and the first woman to serve as Mayor of Hoima, who guided the oil-rich municipality through its elevation to city status and later became a State Minister while championing gender equality and clean urban environments.
ContemporaryIsatou Ceesay
Gambian environmental activist known as the 'Queen of Recycling' who empowers women by transforming plastic waste into income-generating products.