20 Women Entrepreneurs Transforming Abuja!
Abuja has always been a city of power but look beyond the ministries and the boardrooms, and you will find a quieter, equally consequential revolution unfolding, one built in kitchens, salons, clinics, farms, fashion houses, and hotel apartments across the capital. It is being led by women. Women who spotted gaps in the market and […]
6 African Women Creating Innovative and Sustainable Solutions to Period Poverty
Every month, hundreds of millions of women and girls across the world face a choice no one should have to make, managing their period with dignity, or eating. In low and middle-income countries, 613 million people who menstruate are still turning to rags, toilet paper, and leaves because purpose-made menstrual products are either unavailable, unaffordable, […]
12 African Women Proving That Excellence Has No Gender
Excellence has never had a gender. It has always had a name, a work ethic, a vision, and the audacity to show up in rooms that weren’t built for it. Across Africa, women are leading national airlines, managing trillion-naira investment portfolios, captaining vessels through some of the world’s most historic waterways, and rewriting the rules […]
12 African Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
Africa did not break the planet but Africa is fixing it anyway and the women leading that charge are doing it with everything they have. While the world debates timelines and targets in air-conditioned conference rooms, these women are in the thick of it; in the communities, the classrooms, the courtrooms, and the fields where […]
Shot, Burned, Stabbed, Beaten—12 Black Women Dead and America Won’t Say Their Names
Between January and April 2026, just four months, twelve Black women were murdered across America. Some were killed by intimate partners. Some by strangers. Several were pregnant when they died. Several were mothers whose children will now grow up without them. Two were elected officials serving their communities. Twelve Black women. Dead in 120 days. […]
What Women Gain by Giving to Women: Five Stories of Mentorship and Legacy
There’s a moment most women remember with perfect clarity: the moment someone believed in them before they had anything to show for it. Maybe it was the mentor who answered an email from a stranger because something in the message felt urgent. Maybe it was the woman who made a phone call on your behalf […]
#IWDSpecial: 11 Female Leaders on the Unexpected Parts of Leadership No One Talks About
Leadership stories are often told in clean arcs. Vision. Hard work. Breakthrough. Success. But the truth is rarely that linear. For many women, leadership arrives wrapped in contradictions: visibility and loneliness, conviction and self-doubt, courage and exhaustion. The work itself is demanding, but the internal journey — the emotional, spiritual, and intellectual transformation — is […]
Reboot the Online System’ webinar
The internet was supposed to be a space for connection, creativity, and freedom. But for so many women, it’s become a battlefield. Our Founder and Executive Director, Francesca Uriri, is joining an incredible panel for the ‘Reboot the Online System’ webinar, because it’s time we talk about what’s really happening online and what we […]
16 African Women Championing the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence
Across Africa and beyond, a revolution is unfolding, not with weapons, but with voices. In courtrooms and conference halls, on social media platforms and street marches, through code and community organizing, women are dismantling the structures that have long enabled gender-based violence to thrive in shadows. These are stories of architects building new realities: a […]
9 African Women Powering Africa’s Education Revolution
Education has always been one of the most powerful tools for transformation, but in Africa, millions of children are still denied access to quality learning. At the heart of this movement, women who are visionary leaders, educators, innovators, and advocates are rewriting the story of what education can look like across Africa. They’ve created grassroots […]