Political Activist-Women’s Rights
Damilola Odufuwa (1991- )
Business executive, tech entrepreneur, and activist Damilola Odufuwa, a Yoruba woman, born in 1991 and reared in Lagos, Nigeria, has...
Aoua Kéita (1912-1980)
Aoua Kéita was a Malian independence activist, politician, feminist, writer, and midwife. Born on July 12, 1912, in then Bamako,...
M’Balia Camara (1929-1955)
Guinean national political independence martyr, women’s rights activist, and national heroine of the Democratic Party of Guinea, M’Balia Camara, was...
Rose Chibambo (1928-2016)
Rose Lomathinda Chibambo was a prominent politician in the British protectorate of Nyasaland in the years leading up to independence...
Alice Banze (?- )
Alice Banze, born and raised in Maputo, Mozambique, is a trained social scientist with a 25-year career in civil society...
Gisèle Rabesahala (1929-2011)
Gisèle Rabesahala, a political and human rights activist and councilwoman, was born Marie Gisèle Aimée Rabesahala on May 7, 1929,...
Bibi Titi Mohammed (1926-2000)
Bibi Titi Mohammed was a Tanzanian politician and activist. She was born in June 1926 in Dar es Salaam, then...
Prudencia Ayala (1885-1936)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Prudencia Ayala was a writer, social activist, and campaigner for women’s rights in El Salvador, she was the first woman...
Nwanyereuwa (??? – ???)
Nwanyereuwa was an Igbo woman from southeastern Nigeria who became famous because of her leadership in the Aba Women’s War...
