Synopsis “Mireille, daughter of a French Diplomat, Ousmane, son of a poor Muslim family in Senegal: Two childhood sweethearts forced to share their love in secret. Their marriage shocks and dismays both sets of parents, but it soon becomes clear that their youthful optimism and love is a poor defense against the pressures of society. [...]
Ory Okolloh is the Africa policy manager for Google. The Harvard Law School educated Kenyan combined technology with her activism to contribute to making changes in Kenya. Okolloh co-founded the Parliamentary watchdog website Mzalendo to boost accountability in Members of Parliament. She also helped to created Usahidi. Ushahidi (Swahili for witness) is a crowdmap platform – [...]
They say “doing what you love is freedom and loving what you do is happiness.” Palesa Mashiyane, 25, can definitely relate to this. After graduating with a degree in law, the super stylish entrepreneur decided to completely switch careers and do what she loved. An act of courage. “People always wonder how I got an [...]
Kenyan Environmentalist and Human Rights activist, Wangari Maathai, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She was the first African woman to receive this prize but her work started long before 2004. Born in 1940, Professor Maathai was educated at a school run by Italian nuns before going to the United States of America [...]
Where are you from and where do you live now? I am proudly Zambian .I split my time between Albany ,NY where I am in University and my parents house in Westchester. Last book by an African author that you read? The last book my an African writer I read was “Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane which [...]
Thembi Legwaila has been baking for as long as she can remember! Her entrepreneurial spirit got the best of her and she took her talent and turned it into a business, Bella Pastry. Her tasty baked treats have been getting recognition not only in her home, Botswana, but also in neighboring South Africa where she [...]
Beauty Pageants have often gotten a bad reputation because some feel they lack substance. We see the contestants answer questions about ‘world peace’ and ‘making a difference’ but never see much else come from it. Thandekile (Thandi) Muringa, a 24 year old from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has brought some legitimacy to her pageant titles and become [...]
This week’s Celebrate Women Wednesday features Lebogang Maruapula (27), a new-age digital trailblazer. Lebogang noticed the potential that social media has to revolutionize Africa and she decided to get involved. She is the founder of EBAT Media, the first social media consulting and management company in Botswana. A social media boom is spreading through many parts of Africa. Social media [...]