18 African Diaspora Women Leading the World’s Boldest Ideas
Every year, African Women’s Day gives us a reason to pause and celebrate the women moving the continent forward, but this year, we’re widening the lens because “moving Africa forward” doesn’t always look like staying home. Sometimes it looks like a Lagos-raised engineer designing flight paths for NASA. A Kenyan-born nurse rebuilding disability care in […]
The Future of Feminist Organisations Depends on More Than One Woman: A Case for Co-Leadership
There is a particular kind of dissonance that feminist organisations have lived with for a long time and not always named directly. We build movements around the redistribution of power. We write strategies about dismantling hierarchy. We publish reports on the underrepresentation of women in leadership and the structural barriers that keep them out and […]
Dr. Naike Moshi: Building the Ecosystem African Women Need to Rise Fully, Personally, Professionally, and Economically
Dr. Naike Moshi has a question she has been asking for years and it has shaped everything she has built. If African women are this qualified, this capable, and this ready, why are they still not in the room? The answer she found was not about competence. It was about visibility, access, confidence, and the […]
18 Nigerian Women Leading The Charge in Public Service
When most people think about power in Nigeria, they think about the men in the room. The ones with the titles on the door and the cameras at the gate, but spend five minutes looking at who is actually running things, who is rebuilding the institutions, fixing the systems, making the hard calls, and showing […]
LLA Spotlight With Dr. Njideka Okonjo Udochi : The Woman Championing Equitable Healthcare for Every Community
Her father used to say, “Nothing succeeds like success.” Dr. Njide Udochi took that and built a career that proves it. A Nigerian-born physician who arrived in America with a vision and a relentless work ethic, Dr. Udochi has spent decades at the intersection of medicine, advocacy, and service, building a practice, a legacy, and […]
Safety, Excellence, Empowerment: How Dr. Chidinma Akpa Pheoby Is Redefining Aesthetic Medicine in Nigeria
What does it actually take to feel at home in your own body? For Dr. Chidinma Akpa Pheoby, the answer has shaped an entire career. Dr. Dinma earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from the University of Ibadan in 2018 and has continued deepening her expertise through international training, including an elective surgical […]
No Evidence, No Trial, No Mercy: How Ummulkhairi Was Burned Alive for a Crime She Never Committed
She stopped to ask some children for directions. That’s it. That’s the whole story before it became a tragedy. Malama Ummulkhairi, a teacher at an Islamiyya school in New Mararaban Jos, Kaduna State, was on her way to attend an Islamic lecture on a Sunday afternoon. She didn’t know the exact location of the school, […]
How Oluwaseun Kolawole Is Rebuilding Safety in Nigerian Classrooms
Oluwaseun Kolawole did not set out to build a movement. She set out to teach young people about peace. But in 2021, a wave of school bullying incidents kept appearing in the news, one after another, and she could not look away. What started as research turned into a reckoning. The scale of violence quietly […]
Lead Out Loud With Precious Oluwaferanmi, The Founder Turning Confusion Into Clarity For Young Adults Across Nigeria
There is a particular kind of conference Precious Oluwaferanmi remembers from over a decade ago. She was a young student representing her school, recognized as one of the best dressed on the day, and in the room was Ambassador Dr Mrs Florence Ajimobi, the Former First Lady of Oyo State, speaking with a grace that […]
Leading Ladies Africa To Convene Women Leaders, Entrepreneurs, And Changemakers At The Gathering: Women In Leadership Forum
Abuja, Nigeria — Leading Ladies Africa (LLA), a pan-African platform dedicated to amplifying the voices, stories, and leadership of African women across sectors, today announced The Gathering: Women in Leadership Forum, a brand new flagship convening taking place on Saturday, June 20th, 2026, in Abuja, Nigeria. The Gathering is convened by Francesca Uriri, Founder and […]