Category: Iconic Women

Serena was named the greatest female tennis player in the Open Era by a Tennis.com panel in 2018. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest female tennis players.

For her work on Selma (2014), DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Elizabeth Keckley, also known as Elizabeth Keckly, was an American dressmaker, author, and philanthropist who bought her and her son’s freedom from slavery and later served as Mary Todd Lincoln’s modiste.

In 2021, Forbes Magazine listed Abudu as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,” calling her “Africa’s Most Successful Woman.”

Augusta Savage is an African- American Sculptor. The daughter of Methodist minister Edward Fells and Cornelia Murphy, Augusta Christine Fells was born on February 29, 1892, in Green Cove Springs, Florida (near Jacksonville).

She also advocated for equal access to jobs, education, and voting rights for women. Her story inspires many other women and me from Northern Nigeria. Her determination and ability to dare to dream.

She has received recognition from the US Congress as “the mother of the freedom movement” and “the first lady of civil rights.”

She was also known as “The Bronze Blond Bombshell,” “The Black Marilyn Monroe,” “The Belter,” and “The Voice You’ll Always Remember.”

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.”

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.