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5 Women Journalists Who Changed How We See the World

…and covered apartheid-era South Africa and the Korean War. Bourke-White helped invent the modern photographic essay. Her work demonstrated that visual journalism could do more than illustrate a story—it could…

She Shot Factories, Dictators and History — Up Close

…war photojournalist. She covered the siege of Moscow, flew on bombing missions over North Africa, and later accompanied General George Patton’s Third Army into Germany. She survived torpedo attacks at…

Gates Foundation Fills U.S. Global Funding Gap with $2.5 Billion for Women’s Health

…allocated for research around low-cost solutions in obstetric care and maternal immunization, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and maternal and reproductive health for women in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. That…

She’s Working to Make Africa a Healthier Place to Live

Irivwegu Imade Ovuakpor saw the health issues facing rural communities in Africa and decided she wanted to do something about it. Her company Healthy Moms and Kids Africa spreads information…

Inspired By a Birthday Trip to Africa, She’s Made 8 Million Dresses for Girls in Need

Rachel O’Neill sends bundles of homemade dresses — and love — to children in Africa and other countries around the world. Most people spend their 50th birthdays at a restaurant…

Female Entrepreneurship Growing Against the Odds in Africa

Vendors at the Waterside Market in Monrovia, Liberia. Informal markets and businesses make up a great deal of Africa’s economic activity. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) Women throughout Africa are starting businesses…

This is the Only Women-Run Safari Site in All of Africa

…is a woman – and it’s the only safari camp in all of Africa that can make such a boast. Though it closed down temporarily due to the ongoing Covid-19…

This Pan-African Nonprofit Helps Girls Finish School — By the Millions

Nonprofit CAMFED works with girls in several African nations to make sure they finish their educations – and thrive post-graduation. (Credit: CAMFED) Throughout Africa, girls struggle to finish their education….

She Rowed Across Crocodile-Infested Waters – and Became a Better Leader

…myself,” she says. Related After Wildfires, This Scientist Reads the Future of the Land Although, that didn’t stop her from rowing the Zambezi River in Africa from source to sea…

Fearless Sailors Become First All-Female Crew to Circle Globe for Jules Verne Trophy

…Africa, Cape Leeuwin in Australia, and Cape Horn in Chile before crossing the same line in the opposite direction to finish. The giant circle clocks in at 21,760 nautical miles….

Report: For Sudanese Women, ‘Basic Dignity Has Collapsed’ Amid Ongoing War

…Southern Africa, announced during a press conference on the publication. And as infrastructure is increasingly compromised by looting and destruction, healthcare facilities and maternity hospitals have been devastated – and…

Extraordinary Women We Lost in 2025 Who Made the World a Better Place

…and conservationist helped shape humanity’s understanding of animals — notably the wild chimpanzees in East Africa, whose behavior she studied passionately. One of her most visible legacies is the Jane…

Miami Elects Its First Woman Mayor Ever

…Africa as a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State, and elevating brands like healthcare giant Pfizer and beverage company Jose Cuervo. In 2018, she became Miami–Dade County…

Arming Pollution-Prone Communities With Low-Cost Air Censors 

…disadvantaged communities. Now a third-year doctoral student at Columbia University in New York, Raheja is leading projects using low-cost air pollution sensors in Africa and Asia and historically marginalized communities…

First She Founded Jumia. Now, Her VC Fund Aims to Invest $66 Million in African Women Entrepreneurs

Fatoumata Ba has launched a venture capital fund to help other African female-run startups. An African female-led venture capital firm is on its way to reaching its €60 million (about…

Tech Education Coming to Women in West Africa

…harnessing the power of technology to transform the lives of disadvantaged people and communities in developing countries,” Njideka Harry, the executive director of the Youth for Technology Foundation, told AllAfrica.com….

10 Books to Help You Learn About Black History

…man’s mule or adornment. This novel — regarded as the first African-American work to describe the awakening of African-American women — prompted writer Alice Walker to say, “There is no…

10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2025

…documents her years spent diving to explore the wrecks of slave ships. Roberts charts her journey from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History, where she first encounters Diving…

Getting Startups the Funding They Need to Change The World

…how have you addressed it? Each continent, and even each country, has completely different cultural codes and traditions. Organizing conferences and award ceremonies in North and South America, Australia, Africa,…

For Women the World Over, Home is Where the Danger Is

…more robust – for example, France, South Africa and Colombia – researchers found that a “significant share” of the victims had reported previous incidences of violence and abuse by their…

Saving Democracy, One Campaign at a Time — Including Her Own

…through a variety of outreach initiatives. While pursuing her master’s degree, she did similar work in South Africa.  They were formative times. “Those experiences opened my eyes and broadened my…

She Escaped an Abusive Relationship and Built a Thriving Business

Russian-born South Africa-based entrepreneur Jennifer Glodnick knows what it’s like to fight for your business. After moving to South Africa at the age of 22 and starting a successful salon,…

She’s Bringing Music Education to Kids Across the Globe

…in 14,000 schools across the U.S., and into 102 other countries beyond our borders. Our influence now reaches lives in Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Australia. We are…

The Toll That Wars Take on Women

…countless women and girls,” Laetitia Bader, deputy Africa director of the Human Rights Watch, told CNN. “[A]nd both warring parties have blocked them from getting aid and support services –…

Ep.20: Reinventing the Wheelchair

…terrain, whether a dirt road in East Africa or a hiking trail in North America. And now the young entrepreneur’s company, GRIT, is selling the invention worldwide. See related article…

U.S. Grassroots Organizer Wins International Environmental Activism Award

…Indigenous activist duo Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu of South Africa, who together achieved a stoppage in seismic testing for oil and gas off of the country’s Eastern Cape, and…

Using Plants, She’s Discovered How to Bring Clean Drinking Water to Off-Grid Places

…value — for example prosopis juliflora, an invasive weed in Africa, Asia and elsewhere — can be processed by Sharma’s nitro-oxidation method, which Hsiao highlights is a novel technique that…

6 Entrepreneurs with Eco-Friendly Apparel Lines to Celebrate this Earth Day

…Asije has achieved something special in the sustainable fashion industry. Using agricultural waste – including banana stems – she developed a new material source for making textiles. The French-African CEO…

The Victorian Photographer Who Changed Portrait Photography Forever

…to France for education. Cameron met her future husband in South Africa in the 1830s and the pair, who had 11 children (including six who were adopted) lived in various…

A Female Entrepreneur Rises from Defeat

…their products using shea butter sourced from women farmers in western Africa who relied upon buyers like them for their livelihoods. So instead of closing up shop, she pulled the…

Ep. 30: All About Those Periods

…and was raped at age 7. In Africa, she was horrified to learn that girls at the orphanage were sometimes sexually abused in exchange for disposable pads. Through Days for…

This Entrepreneur Wants To Help You Manage Your Stress

…was unclear, my husband and I left the U.K. to be with her in South Africa. I remember watching her suffer and recoil in pain as the medication destroyed her…

Meghan Markle’s New Project Helps Afghan Women Refugees Build Community 

…helped with the publication of “Together: Our Community Cookbook,” which features the women’s recipes from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. In the foreword, Markle emphasized the…

Why This Nonprofit Cares About Periods. And How Meghan Markle Might Help

…pads, panties, a washcloth and soap — to girls in Kenya. The work soon spread to other parts of Africa and Asia. Ten years later, the organization works all across…

Want to #BuyBlack for the Holidays? Try These 9 Women-Run Businesses

…business to both promote a greener way of living and to lift up other Black-owned firms. 5. Omi Woods This brand boasts a commitment to using only “fair trade African…

She Uses Plant Waste to Make Sustainable Fabrics

…company was also named one of Africa’s 100 Next Start-Ups by the World Bank. Today, Asije is proud to support the local farmers who supply the plant fibers Adire Lounge…

Her New Cookbook Takes Readers (and Chefs) on a Journey Through History

…what does not remain? What about the smell of the early morning air as Ibn Batuta set sail from Africa for the East, the conversations had at the marketplace in…

10 Women Who Have Led the Fight Against Climate Change

…over Africa and brings her findings to the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues, where she is a key member. She successfully advocated for recognition of indigenous people’s rights…

Combining Cold Facts and a Warm Heart to Empower African Women

…and women there, but frequently cuts short their education. A 2014 report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization finds that one in 10 girls in Sub-Saharan Africa…

Wangari Maathai: A ‘Mighty Woman’ Who Spoke Truth to Power

…than 30 million trees in Africa, helping 900,000 women. The Green Belt Movement has spread throughout the world, from Africa, to the United States, to Haiti, and beyond. It was…

She’s Brought a Climate-Resilient Superfood to the World’s Attention

…Pacific, Caribbean, Central America and Africa. It is around the size of a melon, with a spiky or pebbled skin that can range in color from brown to green-yellow. The…

Viola Davis’ Latest Rakes in $19 Million its Opening Weekend, Surprising Experts

…of women warriors in 1820s West Africa – was produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.  And it sounds, on its face, like a recipe for a…

Friday Four

…is a career infused with a fierce commitment to justice and a remarkable faith in the power of the fact. [line] 6 Emerging Female Entrepreneurs To Watch In Africa Mfonobong…

How Greta Thunberg, AOC and 10 Women Entrepreneurs Are Battling Climate Change

…prevention in Africa. The company invests in women, rather than energy: it recruits, trains, and supports women entrepreneurs to sell clean-energy products to their communities. Its team of “solar sisters”…

Young Entrepreneurs: Jessica O. Matthews and Julia Silverman

…social issue through art and science. Find out how the sOccket changes communities through game and play. Both had travelled extensively through Africa – Matthews is Nigerian-American – and knew…

Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille on Protecting Society’s Vulnerable

Mayor Patricia de Lille is not waiting for national leaders to step up to save the planet and protect its people. The plain-spoken mayor of Cape Town, South Africa’s second…

For Black Women, a New Resource for Avoiding Toxic Chemicals in Cosmetics

…its shea butter from women farmers in western Africa, and Girls With Curls, a maker of “dippity-do” shaping gel with natural aloe.   The searchable database features over 700 products —…

Willing to Eat Crickets? This Business Hopes You’ll Turn a Dare Into a Healthful Habit

…aspect of crickets-as-food for most Americans, even though insects are widely eaten in Africa, Asia and Latin America. For better or for worse, “crickets are going to be a novelty…

When Pain Derailed This Doctor’s Career, She Started a $5 Million Nonprofit That Saves Pregnant Women’s Lives Around the World

…2002. Today, Stachel is the globe-traveling co-founder of We Care Solar, a social enterprise that manufactures solar-powered suitcases that provide power to maternal health facilities in Africa, Asia and other…

These 3 International Orgs Are Collaborating to Boost Women Fighting Climate Change

…will look at work being performed by SEWA in Gujarat, India, and Solar Sister’s efforts in East Africa. But any work studied by the team will have women front-and-center, will…