Category: Iconic Women

She published two books, So Long a Letter (1979) and Scarlet Song (1981), as well as an article titled “La fonction politique des littératures Africaines écrites” (The Political Function of African Written Literature) in 1981.

She is a trained astrophysicist, a former Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow of the Royal Society, and a writer/curator on the history of Islamic science and culture, focusing on the impact of Arabic/Islamic science on the 17th-century scientific revolution.

When we stare at large buildings in concrete jungles we do not think of women. The buildings  Zaha designed are probably some of these buildings that have been stared at with awe.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1993 to 2020. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

A founding member of the women’s brigade, now known as the women’s wing, Chikamoneka organized female rallies against colonial tyranny.

She has won numerous important prizes, including the Salzman Memorial Prize in Virology and the Benjamin Franklin Next Gen Award. Corbett earned her diploma from Hillsborough, North Carolina’s Orange High School in 2004.

Gloria Grace Orwoba is a politician from Kenya who was elected to represent women in the Kenyan Senate in 2022.

Chioma Udeh is the founder of AFRIFF; The African International Film Festival. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of Envivo Communications.

Every Barrack in Nigeria has a Mami market, and we can thank Mammy Maria Ochefu for this.

Lois Mailou Jones is an American painter and educator, she had a wide range of artistic techniques, from traditional landscape to abstract art with African themes.