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Pan African Women's Organization
The Pan-African Women's Organization (PAWO, , (OPF)) was founded as the African Women's Union in 1962. In 1974, the organization changed its name to the Pan-African Women's Organization. It was originally formed as an organization to fight against colonialism and racial discrimination and allow women across Africa to unite in their efforts for gaining socio-economic equality. Independence and an end to Apartheid, shifted the organizational goals toward human rights and peace activism. It is currently headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. History Aoua Kéita, a French Sudanese midwife and trade unionist, and Jeanne Martin Cissé, a Guinean teacher, led a series of meetings to generate discussion on Pan-Africanism throughout Africa in 1961. A conference was held in Guinea in July for women's associations to discuss organizing together in their struggles for national liberation. Women from Dahomey (now Benin) Egypt, Liberia, Morocco, Niger, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Togo, and Tunisia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dar Es Salaam
Dar es Salaam (, ; from ) is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of the Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over 7 million people, Dar es Salaam is the largest city in East Africa by population and the List of cities in Africa by population, fifth-largest in Africa. Located on the Swahili coast, Dar es Salaam is an important economic center and one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Experts predict that the city's population will grow to over 10 million before 2030. The city was founded in the mid-19th century. It was the main administrative and commercial center of German East Africa, Tanganyika (territory), Tanganyika, and Tanzania. The decision was made in 1974 to move the capital to Dodoma which was officially completed in 1996. Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's most prominent city for arts, fashion, media, film, television, and finance. It is the capital of the co-extensive Dar es Salaam Region, one of Tanzania's Regions of Tan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatoumata Agnès Bembello
Fatoumata is a West African feminine given name. Notable people include: * Fatoumata Bagayoko (born 1988), Malian basketball player * Fatoumata Coly (born 1984), Senegalese sprinter * Fatoumata Coulibaly, Malian actress and women's rights activist * Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra (born 1949), Malian lawyer and judge * Fatoumata Diawara (born 1982), Malian musician * Fatoumata Diop (born 1986), Senegalese sprinter * Fatoumata Kaba (journalist) (born 1969), Guinean journalist * Fatoumata Koné (born 1988), Ivorian basketball player * Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Malian public health official * Fatoumata Ndiaye (born 1989), Malian Equatoguinean-born footballer * Fatoumata Samassékou (born 1987), Malian swimmer * Fatoumata Tambajang Aja Fatoumata C.M. Jallow-Tambajang (born 22 October 1949) is a Gambian politician and activist who served as Vice-President of the Gambia and Minister of Women's Affairs (The Gambia), Minister of Women's Affairs from February 2017 to June 2018, ... (born 1949), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Mulira
Rebecca Allen Namugenze Mukasa, also known as Rebecca Mulira, was a Ugandan women's rights advocate and social activist. Biography Mulira was born in Mengo Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. She is known for her contributions to the Buganda Kingdom Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda. The kingdom of the Baganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day East Africa, consisting of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala. The 14 m .... She died in a car crash in 2001. Honours She was honoured as one of the female icons of the African anti-colonial struggle. She was hailed by the Kabaka for being a figure in women's emancipation. References 2001 deaths Ugandan feminists 20th-century Ugandan women {{Uganda-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Mpanga
Joyce Rovincer Mpanga (née Masembe; 22 January 1934 – 18 November 2023) was a Ugandan politician and member of the Lukiiko from 2009. Mpanga was the Minister of Women in Development from 1988 to 1989 and the Minister of State for Primary Education from 1989 to 1992. Outside of the cabinet of Uganda, Mpanga was a Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2001 for Mubende District. Early life and education Mpanga was born on 22 January 1934 in Mityana, Uganda and attended Gayaza High School. After graduating from Makerere College in 1958, she went to the University of London for a Bachelor of Arts and Indiana University Bloomington for her Master of Science in 1962. Career Mpanga began her career as a teacher at Makerere College in 1958 and deputy headmistress of Gayaza High School in 1962. During her time in Makerere, Mpanga was elected onto the Uganda Legislative Council in 1960. Mpanga left for England in exile a year after the 1966 attack of Lubiri and returned to Uganda in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibi Titi Mohammed
Bibi Titi Mohammed (June 1926 – 5 November 2000) was a Tanzanian politician and activist. She was born in June 1926 in Dar es Salaam, at the time the capital of former Tanganyika. She first was considered a freedom fighter and supported the first president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere. Bibi Titi Mohammed was a member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the party that fought for the independence of Tanzania, and held various ministerial positions. In October 1969, she was sentenced for treason, and, after two years in prison, received a presidential pardon. Biography Early life As she was growing up in the Matumbi tribe, her father refused to send her to school, because he feared she would lose her Muslim faith. After her father died, her mother decided to send her to school, because she saw the importance of an education for a young woman. Bibi Titi's mother's influence helped Bibi fight for women's rights and helped her in her fight for independence. Marriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muthoni Likimani
Muthoni Gachanja Likimani (born 1926) is a Kenyan activist and writer, who has published works of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as children's books. In her career she has also been a broadcaster, actress, teacher and publisher. She was the first Kenyan beauty queen, the first African to establish a public relations firm in Kenya and one of the country's earliest female authors. Biography Muthoni Likimani was born and raised in Kahuhia Mission, Murang'a District, Kenya, the daughter of Mariuma Wanjiura and Rev. Levi GochanJa. Her father was one of the first Kenyan Anglican church ministers.Elisabeth Bekers"Likimani, Muthoni Gachanja" in Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates (eds), ''Dictionary of African Biography, Volume 6'', Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 499–500. She taught at Kahuhia Teachers’ Training College, before undertaking further studies in Britain and Israel, becoming involved in broadcasting and public relations.Emeka-Mayaka Gekara and Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pumla Kisosonkole
Pumla Ellen Ngozwana Kisosonkole (1911–1997) was a Ugandan politician and activist in women's organizations. Biography Pumla Ellen Ngozwana was born in South Africa in 1911 to Methodist church ministers. She received education at mission schools and attended the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Eastern Cape. She travelled to London, furthering her education at the Institute of Education. She then wrote the pamphlet "Education as I Saw It in England". She married Ugandan Christopher Kisosonkole in 1939. They moved to Uganda, where Pumla became involved in politics. She spent eight years as a senior community development officer and taught at King's College Budo. In 1956 she was nominated to the Uganda Legislative Council (LEGCO) of the Protectorate Government. She was the first African woman to enter the legislative council. She served as a representative in the legislature during Uganda's transition from a British colony to independence. She started a four-year stretch as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Kenyatta (mayor)
Margaret Wambui Kenyatta (16 February 1928 – 5 April 2017) was a Kenyan politician. She was the daughter of the first President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, and his wife Grace Wahu. She served as the mayor of Nairobi from 1970 to 1976 and as Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1976 to 1986. She was thereafter appointed as a Commissioner with the Electoral Commission of Kenya from 1992 to 2002. Early life Margaret Kenyatta was born in Pumwani Maternity Hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, to Jomo Kenyatta, a Kenyan politician who later became Kenya's first president, and his first wife Grace Wahu. She was one of two children born to Kenyatta and Wahu, after elder brother Peter Muigai. By the time Margaret was born, her father was already a political activist. He was the Secretary General of the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) that had been formed to fight for the return of African lands that had been forcefully taken by the colonialists. In 1929, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Kaunda
Beatrice "Betty" Kaunda (née Kaweche Banda; 17 November 1928 – 18 September 2013) was a Zambian educator and inaugural First Lady of Zambia, first lady of Zambia from 1964 to 1991 as the wife of the country's first president, Kenneth Kaunda. She was known as Mama Betty Kaunda and the mother of Zambia by Zambians. As the first lady, she was part of many diplomatic visits and matron of many organizations. As per political observers, she led a very simple life as the first lady. She authored her autobiography along with Stephen A. Mpashi in 1969. She was involved in many charitable initiatives and she received the Indira Gandhi Non-violence award from UNIP for her efforts. Early life Betty Kaunda was born on 17 November 1928 to Kaweche Banda and Milika Sakala Banda at Mpika. She had her education at Mbereshi Girls and later underwent training at Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation’s Women’s programme. She worked as a teacher in Mufulira. She married Kenneth Kaunda in 1946, who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yodit Imru
Gudit () is the Classical Ethiopic name for a personage also known as Yodit in Tigrinya, and Amharic, but also Isato in Amharic, and Ga'wa in Ţilţal. The person behind these various alternative names is portrayed as a powerful female ruler, probably identical to Māsobā Wārq, the daughter of the last Aksumite king, Dil Na'ad, mentioned in an early Arabic source. She is said to have been responsible for laying waste the Kingdom of Aksum and its countryside, and the destruction of its churches and monuments in the 10th century AD. If she is the same as the ''Tirda' Gābāz'' in other Ethiopian sources, she is also said to have attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling dynasty. The deeds attributed to her are recorded in oral tradition and in a variety of historical narratives. Name The name "Gudit" in the Geʽez narrative associates her positively with the Biblical Judith. It has been conjectured that the form Gudit is connected etymologically with the Amha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Haïdara
Jeanette, Jeannette or Jeanetta may refer to: * Jeanette (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) Places * Jeannette, Ontario, Canada * Jeannette Runciman Island, Ontario, Canada * Jeannette Island, Russia * Jeannette, Pennsylvania, U.S. * Jeannette Monument, United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. * Jeanette State Forest, Minnesota, U.S. People * Jeanette (Spanish singer) (born 1951), Spanish singer * Jeanette Biedermann, a German singer known mononymously by "Jeanette" * Buddy Jeannette (1917–1998), basketball player and coach * Daniel Jeannette (born 1961), director of animation and FX * Gertrude Jeannette (1914-2018), actress * Gunnar Jeannette (born 1982), racecar driver * Jeanette Jena (1896–1971), American art critic * Joe Jeanette (1879–1958), heavyweight boxer * Stanick Jeannette (born 1977), figure skater * Jeanette Aw (born 1979), Singaporean actress * Jeanne Brousse (1921– 2017) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhia Haddad
Radhia Haddad () (March 17, 1922 – October 20, 2003) was a Tunisian feminist activist, and former chairperson of the National Union of Tunisian Women for fifteen years. Biography Born Radhia Ben Ammar () on March 17, 1922, she was the daughter of Salah Ben Ammar. She grew up in a family of traditional Tunisian bourgeois intellectuals. She had her primary studies in French at the French School of Franceville, but, as a girl, she was forced by her parents to leave school at twelve years old after obtaining her primary school certificate. She later wrote that priority in education was given to the males in her family: complaining that "no sacrifice was deemed too great to facilitate the studies of my brothers". Nevertheless, she pursued Arabic language courses at home and learned a lot from her brother, the future politician and activist for human rights Hassib Ben Ammar, with whom she often discussed reading his college books. Radhia Haddad, compelled to wear the traditional T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
