Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi is empowering women and girls with tech
The more girls we empower the better our society becomes. Oreoluwa is one of those people ensuring that girls and women are no longer marginalized. As the founder of Women’s Technology Empowerment Center ( W.TEC) – a non-governmental organisation working to empower girls and women socially and economically, using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) she […]
Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin Is On A Mission To Add 20,000 Female Programmers Into The Nigerian Tech Eco-System By 2020
Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin is the founder of Pearls Africa Foundation, a social enterprise that promotes the cause of vulnerable young girls through technology, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition and internship placements. Abisoye, in a bid to deal with poverty and also change the narratives of a high percentage of men in the tech industry, started a programme called GirlsCoding. […]
Women We Love : Ebonee Davis
Ebonee Davis is a supermodel, activist, speaker and proudly black and natural too! When she first started her career she was told she couldn’t get jobs because she was black so she conformed to the ‘standards of the indsutry. In her own words I was told that the only black models in the industry who work […]
Toke Makinwa launches her Baby Girl for Life collection
Toke Makinwa is one woman that can not be put in a box. When you think you’ve seen all there is about her, she introduces us to a new dimension of herself .The media personality & bestselling author Toke Makinwa, has launched her signature leather goods line. Following the success of her memoir, the author is testing […]
Yass!!! Curvy, Fine and Fabulous! About That Curvy Life’s Collective at the Heineken LFDW 2017
The About That Curvy Life Collective showcase at The 2017 Heineken Lagos Fashion & design week was a show stopping, curvy pink power movement and sensual macho explosion. As always, the ATCL Collective show did not fail to exceed crowd expectations as the models swayed and strutted on the runway delivering class, style and so much positive […]
Tshepy Matloga started a business and lifestyle magazine in another country because she noticed a need
Who goes to another country to start a magazine because she noticed a need? Definitely Tshepy Matloga! This must tell you the kind of woman she is. More than a year ago she started visiting Malawi and she fell in love with the scenery. In touring the city she discovered that there was no business magazine […]
7 Business Grants to Help Women Launch and Grow Their Startup
The number of women entrepreneurs has grown tremendously over the last decade. Despite the substantial growth of women in entrepreneurship, it’s harder for female-controlled startups to access capital to launch and/or scale their businesses. When compared with men, female founders are less likely to receive bank loans, venture capital, and angel investments. In 2015, for […]
“Social media business is competitive and tasking.” – Sylvia Nwoko
Many businesses have gotten a voice just by being on instagram. Amongst those businesses is Sylvia Nwoko’s fashion brand specializing fashion designing, retailing Ankara fabrics, fashion accessories and other ready-to wear fashion items. According to her, social media has helped her business grow in leaps and bounds. “The fact that I can post several pictures and […]
Introducing: TEDxSurulereWomen
It is often said that one of the hardest things in life is figuring out which bridges to burn, and which to cross. Sometimes, the bridges we burn light our way, other times, the bridges we burn are the same ones we need in the future. For TEDWomen 2017, we’ll explore the theme of […]
Meet Dr Kelechi Okoro, the doctor who shares health tips in the most entertaining way
Health and medical issues are usually addressed with such seriousness. While we understand the reason for this we also know that there are more engaging ways of passing across health tips and giving medical advice. Dr Kel as she is fondly called on instagram is doing this and much more. How come a doctor is […]