Meet Wilma Cavaleiro, The Angola Entrepreneur Creating an App for Hair and Beauty Businesses
In most cases, getting and interacting with potential customers is one of the major challenges for hair salon owners and freelance stylists. Thankfully, Angola’s Wilma Cavaleiro, founder of app management company KUJINGA, has come to save the day. KUJINGA is an application management company, which serves for the intermediation of beauty services with beauty salons, […]
Awesome! These Kenyan Women ‘Pooled’ Their Cash to Build a 5-Storey Apartment to House Students
In Kenya, only around six percent of women own any land. The Murang’a County Women SACCO (MCWS) – a five-year-old savings and credit cooperative for women – wanted to think bigger, so they built an apartment block to house students, defying the financial and cultural obstacles that stop so many women from owning land in […]
“By 2024, The US Expects to Face a Shortage of One Million Nurses, Our Vision is to Help all Healthcare Workers Find, do their Best Work and Live Better Lives” – #LLA Meets, Dr. Iman Abuzeid – Co-founder and CEO, Incredible Health
Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the Co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a career marketplace whose custom matching technology offers hospitals the fastest, most effective way to hire qualified permanent staff. As a former medical doctor whose immediate family includes three surgeons, she understands the importance of helping healthcare professionals find and do their best work. […]
Laetitia KY is Making Magic with her Natural Hair and You Need to See This!
Who would have thought that our hair can do wondrous things? From making a guitar to birds, dogs, and trees sculptures, Laetitia Ky, an artist based in the Ivory Coast, just needs some wire, thread, and her own hair to make magic! With those three simple tools, Ky makes elaborate sculptures, then photographs the results […]
Awkwafina Made History at The 2020 Golden Globes Awards
Awkwafina became the first performer of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe Award on Sunday. She’s the sixth woman of Asian descent to be nominated in the lead actress in a musical or comedy category and the first to win the award in the lead actress film category. Awkwafina joins a small group of […]
Meet Nigerian ‘New Media’ Artist, Alexis Tsegba, Whose Work Explores the Intersection of Nature & Technology
Alexis Tsegba is one artist we cannot help but admire. As a 7-year-old growing up in Benue State, Nigeria, Alexis Tsegba loved watching her teenage cousin draw natural, flowing pencil strokes to create comics. But when she asked him to teach her, he pushed her aside with a scoff and a “No!”. Later, he offered her […]
4 Career and Personal Branding Trends That Will Impact Your Success in 2020
Deciding how your career or personal brand will be in 2020 can get a little dicey. We live in a world that is so noisy these days. Everyone has an opinion on everything, a lot of people are telling you what to do and what not to do, people are giving you branding advice […]
Entrepreneur, Feminist and Activist, Leomie Anderson is more than Just a Model!
At 25, Leomie Anderson is already an internationally renowned model and founder of a successful fashion brand and blog, all aimed at inspiring a generation of strong, independent women. Leomie’s modeling career began when she was scouted at 14 on her way home from school in London. She was booked on her first catwalk show […]
Guess Who’s on the February Fashion & Film Cover for British Vogue? Lupita Nyong’o!!
“2020 is looking bright” for actress Lupita Nyong’o!! Lupita Nyong’o is British Vogue’s February cover star for their “Fashion & Film” issue and we are so proud! This is the Kenyan actor’s first time gracing a British Vogue cover and she’s so excited about it. Well, we’re excited too. “2020 is looking bright,” she exclaims on Twitter. […]
These Tech Gadgets will Help you Smash your New Year Body-Mind Goal
Taking care of your body and mind is non-negotiable in 2020. Yes, we know you want that career growth and you want your business to boom. However, with the increasingly worrisome rate of terminal diseases, poor mental health, rate of suicide, and so on, it is very important to pay attention to your body and […]