Nokukhanya Luthuli
Although she never became as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her community and South Africa’s liberation struggle as a whole.
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Nongqawuse
1800s South African prophet
Nomvula Mokonyane
South African politician
Nomkhosi Mary Mini
South African activist killed in the maseru Massacre in 1982
Noni Jabavu
Pioneering South African writer
Noemy Chaverra
Colombia’s first chemical engineer of African descent, graduating from the University of Antioquia in 1951
Dr Philomena Kanwulia
Appointed professor in Chemical Engineering at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in 2006, she is thought to be the first woman to reach this level in Nigeria as well as the first female Dean of a Faculty of Engineering in Nigeria (2012).
Lola Eniola-Adefeso
Nigerian-American engineer who bridges the chemical and biological engineering fields
Bavelile Gloria Hlongwa
South African chemical engineer and politician
Gisèle Rabesahala
Malagasy politician and activist Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in Madagascar’s federal government in 1977, as well as the country’s first woman municipal councilor and the first Malagasy woman to establish and lead a political party.