Category: DW Originals
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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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“I don’t think there’s enough visibility to Black Women indie filmmakers” – Award-winning Filmmaker Zanah Thirus
“As a filmmaker, human life and everyday experiences inspire me as a storyteller, especially from the lens of all of the identities that I hold.”
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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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For Chima Mmeje, It’s important for Black and Brown freelancers to form communities
Chima Mmeje founded the Freelance Coalition For Developing Countries (FCDC), a freelancer coalition specially dedicated to supporting, mentoring and coaching people of colour in their careers.
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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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Document Women Premieres Short Film at Sokoto Book and Arts Festival
This series follows the lives of four women in Nigeria’s northern “Arewa” community who excel in the non-traditional male-dominated sports industry.
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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.
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Aisha Bewley, Arabic-to-English Translator, Named Muslim “Woman of the Year”
Ms Bewley, the wife of Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley, has authored and translated several publications about Islam to make the religion accessible to a wider audience than it had previously had.
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These Northern Wedding rights nurture female friendships
For women in the region, weddings are a way to commune with members of the community and the family.