Category: Iconic Women

Very often women activists are advised to form alliances with men and negotiate women’s rights as they fight to reclaim their long-withheld rights from the oppressors.

Listen to Esther Armah simplify the concept of Emotional Justice, intersectionality and structurality of oppression with Awazi on our podcast, “We’re Not Crazy, You Are”

I pledge to Nigeria my country To be faithful, loyal and honest To serve Nigeria with all my strength To defend her unity and uphold her honour and glory So help me God.

Amy Jacques Garvey was a Jamaican born journalist, writer, poet and activist of Pan-African emancipation.

Mary Church Terrell was an African American writer, educator and social activist who advocated for racial equality and women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Tarana Burke is an American activist who started the Me Too movement. She is the founder of Just Be Inc., an all girls program for black girls aged 12 -18.

Fatima Adamu’s work has impacted many women’s lives in Northern Nigeria. NANA offers empowerment of young girls with education and empowerment of women through schemes like the mechanic workshop and fish farming.

In 1992, Ama Ata Aidoo won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Africa) for her novel Changes. Her collection of poems, Someone Talking To Sometime, won the Nelson Mandela Prize for Poetry in 1987.

Aisha’s bravery and keen hunting abilities have earned her the title of ‘Queen Hunter’ from the locals.

She is regarded as the first computer programmer because she was the first to recognize that Babbage’s machine had applications beyond pure calculation and published the first algorithm to be executed by this machine.