Hayatte Ndiaye

Hayatte Ndiaye is the first woman architect in Chad, the first woman to be nominated and selected as President of the National Order of Architects of Chad (ONAT, 2019–2022), and the first Chadian elected as a member of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

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Mélissa Kacoutié

Mélissa Kacoutié is the Founder and Principal Architect at Jeannette Studio Architecture, an architectural firm located in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (2016).

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Dettu Numbi Mbabi

Detty Numbi Mbabi is the founder of Studio D RDC, an architecture and urban planning firm based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2017–), and a licensed architect with the Ordre National des Architectes du Congo, ONA.

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Rahel Shawl

Rahel Shawl is the founder and principal architect of RAAS Architects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2004–) and a co-founder of Equinox Property Developers Plc, in Addis Ababa (2014-); she was also a co-founder of Abba Architects in Addis Ababa (1994–2004).

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Magali Régis

Magali Régis is the first US-licensed Haitian woman architect; she became a registered architect in New York state (1993).

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Emma Miloyo

Emma Miloyo is co-founder and architect at Design Source in Nairobi, Kenya (2007). She served as the first woman president of the Architectural Association of Kenya (2017–2019), and was a Founding Board Member of Women in Real Estate (WIRE).

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