Category: DW Originals
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Literature meets Tech on Ifeoma Igwe’s Text-to-Speech App
She is a technology enthusiast and the creator of a text-to-speech app with a Nigerian accent which she uses to listen to her manuscript. She combines her love for African literature with the technology necessary for its advancement.
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Understanding Female Voter Apathy in Northern Nigeria
It’s hard to imagine that women in Northern Nigeria were not allowed to vote until after the civil war. Other women in Nigeria going out to vote while their counterparts up North sat home and waited for the results to be announced.
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Mammy Maria Ochefu, The Woman Who Started The ‘Mammy Market’
Every Barrack in Nigeria has a Mami market, and we can thank Mammy Maria Ochefu for this.
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African-American Painter Lois Mailou Jones
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.
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Tennis Legend, Serena Williams
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.
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“Selma” Director, Ava Duvernay
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.
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From Slave to Modiste, Elizabeth Keckley Hobbs
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.
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Meet Zakiyya Abubakar, a self-taught Landscape artist
Zakiyya Abubakar is a self-taught Landscape artist whose primary medium is acrylic on canvas. She began painting during the lockdown. She started selling her paintings when a relative saw some of them and commissioned her to paint 30 pieces for him.
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Nigerian Media Mogul, Mo Abudu
In 2021, Forbes Magazine listed Abudu as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,” calling her “Africa’s Most Successful Woman.”
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“It started with a PowerPoint presentation and a few boxes.” – The Women Behind Uncover
Together with co-founders Jade Oyateru and Catherine Lee, the three women met in Nairobi, and their shared passion for skincare and business acumen drove them to create Uncover.