Monrovia (Liberia) – In about two weeks after she won the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, Forbes Magazine, one of the most influential business publications in the United States, named President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia as the most “powerful woman on the African continent.” The Magazine, in its maiden Africa issue, lists the Liberian leader… Continue reading Africa’s Most Powerful Woman- Ellen
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Three women Win Nobel Peace Prize
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. They were recognised for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”. Mrs Sirleaf is Africa’s first female elected… Continue reading Three women Win Nobel Peace Prize
Old Leadership, New Leadership
Leadership has become a buzz word for practitioners, bureaucrats and theorists of African development. The term variously means a process of getting work done through people. Leadership may not be science but it is committed responsibility. Africans in civil service, in business schools, in NGOs, in the mass media, in think tanks, in academia, in… Continue reading Old Leadership, New Leadership
The ‘long walk’ to equality for African women
L. Muthoni Wanyeki Africa’s political independence was accompanied by a common clarion call to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and disease. Fifty years after the end of colonial, the question is: To what extent has the promise of that call has been realized for African women? There is no doubt that African women’s “long walk to freedom”… Continue reading The ‘long walk’ to equality for African women