Author: Aisha Kabiru Mohammed
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The Bronze Blonde Bombshell, Joyce Bryant
She was also known as “The Bronze Blond Bombshell,” “The Black Marilyn Monroe,” “The Belter,” and “The Voice You’ll Always Remember.”
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Toni Morrison, First African-American Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
A citation praised Toni Morrison as an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”
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What It Means to Tackle Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria’s Volatile North
Recently, the United Nations declared Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) as a ‘shadow pandemic’ while calling for urgent, comprehensive, and effective actions by duty bearers to curb the menace.
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UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J Mohammed
Amina Mohammed played a significant role in the Post-2015 Development Agenda process in 2012 when she was appointed as Ban Ki- Moon’s special adviser on Post-2015 development planning.
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South African Singer-Songwriter Miriam Makeba
The South African government revoked her passport and outlawed her records in 1963. Hugh Masekela, a trumpeter and another Belafonte protege, and she were married in 1964.
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South African Singer-Songwriter Miriam Makeba
The South African government revoked her passport and outlawed her records in 1963. Hugh Masekela, a trumpeter and another Belafonte protege, and she were married in 1964.
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First Nigerian, First African and first female WTO Boss, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
She served as Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from June to August 2006. She was voted Global Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney in 2005.
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Who was Alice Ball? This woman created an effective treatment for leprosy using Oil
She was also the university’s first female and African American chemistry professor. Alice Ball’s work saved many lives, but her work nevertheless remained forgotten mainly in the scientific record.
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Is Okafor’s law real or is it another sexist myth?
Okafor’s Law gives men a sense of entitlement to women’s bodies. The theory implies that once a man has had sex with a woman and it was good. He somewhat has a right to her body.
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Kavitha Roa has told the extraordinary stories of India’s forgotten Lady Doctors
Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors tell the extraordinary stories of six women who lived from the 1860s to the 1930s and defied the notion that they were unfit for medicine because of their gender.