Etain Madden
Etain Madden (1939–82) studied philosophy at King’s College, London, and was active in a number of political and feminist causes.
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Mariama Keïta
Mariama Keïta was Niger’s first female journalist and a prominent feminist activist.
Hulda Shipanga
Hulda Kamboi Shipanga was a Namibian nurse, midwife, and advisor to the Namibian Ministry of Health.
Rose Ziba Chibambo
Rose Lomathinda Chibambo was a prominent political figure in the British Protectorate of Nyasaland, later Malawi, in the prelude to its independence in 1964 and the subsequent years.
Aoua Keïta
Aoua Keïta was a Malian midwife, activist, and politician, recognized as a prominent figure in Mali’s struggle for independence, trade unionism, and feminism.
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner is a prominent poet and climate change activist.
Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Toujan al-Faisal
Jordanian television journalist and human rights advocate. She became the first female member of the Jordanian Parliament.
Ruth Perry
Liberian politician Ruth Sando Perry was the first woman to be head of state in a modern African country, as chair of Liberia’s third transitional government in the 1990s.
Genet Sium
Eritrean figure writer, activist and nurse whose life and work have been shaped by her involvement in the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) during the war for Eritrean independence from Ethiopia.