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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center For Women And Development
The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development, also known as the EJS Center, is an organization to encourage and develop women in leadership roles in Africa. Founded by the former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2018, the organization aims "to be a catalyst for change across Africa, by helping unleash its most abundant untapped power – its women". Ophelia Weeks, ex-President of the University of Liberia, was appointed as the center's first executive director. Amujae Initiative The center launched its flagship program, the Amujae Initiative, at the Farmington Hotel in Margibi County on International Women's Day in March 2020. 'Amujae' means "we are going up" in Liberian dialect, and the initiative aims to prepare women for promotion to leadership positions across Africa. In 2020, Joyce Banda of Malawi and Catherine Samba-Panza of Central African Republic helped Johnson Sirleaf with the Amaujae Initiative, 15 women were chosen as the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. Sirleaf was born in Monrovia to a Gola father and Kru-German mother. She was educated at the College of West Africa. She completed her education in the United States, where she studied at Madison Business College and Harvard University. She returned to Liberia to work in William Tolbert's government as Deputy Minister of Finance from 1971 to 1974. Later, she worked again in the West, for the World Bank in the Caribbean and Latin America. In 1979, she received a cabinet appointment as Minister of Finance, serving to 1980. After Samuel Doe seized power in 1980 in a coup d'état and executed Tolbert, Sirleaf fled to the United States. She worked for Citibank and then the Equator Bank. She returned to Liberia to contest a senatorial seat for Montserrado Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yawa Hansen-Quao
Yawa Hansen-Quao (born in Accra) is a Ghanaian founder, social entrepreneur and a feminist. She sits on the Board of Directors of Ashesi University, serves on the advisory board, Women's Institute for Global Leadership and Benedictine University. She is the founder of the Leading Ladies Network (LLN), a member of the African Leadership Network and the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community. She is a force to reckon with in the education and well-being of the girl child. Early life Yawa Hansen-Quao is the oldest daughter of a Ghanaian politician who was forced to flee the country in the early 1980s amidst the season of political turmoil. She lived her early life as a refugee in Togo and then in the United States. Like many African refugees forced to flee their continent, she was raised between two cultures and internalized both. It was not an easy time for Yawa, living under the trust that they would return home when it was much safer, yet this bi-cultural childhood mould ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakama Manty Jones
Yakama Manty Jones ( Mara) is a Sierra Leonean multipotentiality living this through her portfolio career. Jones is an economist, entrepreneur and philanthropist with a Ph.D. in finance and economics. She is the Director of Research and Delivery at the Sierra Leone Ministry of Finance and a Focal Person for the World Bank's Human Capital Project in Sierra Leone. In 2021, she was selected as an Amujae leader by the EJS Center. Jones has authored and co-authored multiple scholarly articles and spoken at TEDxYouth, Africa Oxford Initiative, and the World Bank. Early life and education Yakama Manty Jones was born in Sierra Leone. She attended the Tower Hill Kindergarten and Primary School, where she sat to the National Primary School Examinations (NPSE). Jones enrolled at Limount College, sat for the London G.C.E O’ Level Examinations, and emerged the best candidate in the country. She then attended Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, where she earned her bache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Grace Duku
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), from Greek ''Sousanna'', from Latin ''Susanna'', from Old French ''Susanne''. Variations * Susana (given name), Susanna, Susannah * Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah * Susann, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne (given name), Suzanne * Susanne (given name) * Suzan (given name) * Suzanne * Suzette (given name) * Suzy (given name) * Zuzanna (given name) *Cezanne (Avant-garde) Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Poosan, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * fa, سوسن (Sousan, Susan) ** tg, Савсан (Savsan), tg, Сӯсан (Sūsan) * ku, Sosna,Swesne * ar, سوسن (Sawsan) * hy, Շուշան (Šušan) * (Sushan) * Sujan in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmawit Moges Bekele
Dagmawit Moges Bekele ( am, ዳግማዊት ሞገስ በቀለ; born 10 December 1983) is an Ethiopian politician serving as the current Minister of Transport and Communications of the Ethiopia since October 2018. She has served also as Deputy Mayor and Communication Affairs Bureau Head of Addis Ababa City Administration. Dagmawit was previously Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t .... References External linksDagmawit Moges: Ethiopian Woman in Politics (interview in Amharic) {{DEFAULTSORT:Moges, Dagmawit 21st-century Ethiopian politicians 1983 births Living people Government ministers of Ethiopia 21st-century Ethiopian women politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farida Bedwei
Farida Nana Efua Bedwei (born 6 April 1979) is a Ghanaian software engineer and co-founder of Logiciel, a fin-tech company in Ghana. Farida Bedwei has built mobile and enterprise applications, and is also known for her knowledge of software architecture, and deploying mobile services, particularly for banking applications. Early life Farida was born in Lagos, Nigeria and spent her early childhood living in three different countries (Dominica, Grenada and UK) due to the nature of her fathers job with the United Nations Development Programme. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of one. Her family moved to Ghana when she was 9 years old and was home schooled until 12 years. Education She was home schooled until the age of 12 when she was first sent to a government school in Ghana. Farida's parent at the tender age of 15 noticed her early passion for computers and decided to enroll her in a one-year computer course at the St. Michael information technology centre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teju Abisoye
''Tupinambis'' is a lizard genus which belongs to the family Teiidae and contains eight described species. These large lizards are commonly referred to as tegus (''teiús'' in Portuguese). '' T. merianae'' (Argentine black and white tegu), '' T. rufescens'' (red tegu), and '' T. teguixin'' (gold tegu) are popular in the pet trade. They are primarily found in South America, although ''T. teguixin'' also occurs in Panama. In 2012, a number of tegu species were reclassified from ''Tupinambis'' to the previously used genus ''Salvator''. The newly proposed classification comes from a restructuring of the family Teiidae based upon the study of 137 morphological characteristics. The new classification is as follows: ''Salvator duseni'' (yellow tegu), ''Salvator rufescens'' (red tegu), ''Salvator merianae'' (Argentine black and white tegu), ''Tupinambis teguixin'' (gold tegu), ''Tupinambis longilineus'' (Rhondonia tegu), ''Tupinambis palustris'' (swamp tegu) and ''Tupinambis quadrilineatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumoke Oduwole
Olajumoke Omoniyi Oduwole is a Nigerian jurist and academic. She was appointed the Prince Claus Chair holder from 2013–2015. Early life and education Jumoke Oduwole was born in Lagos State, Nigeria where she completed her primary and secondary education. She graduated from the University of Lagos with a second-class upper LL.B degree in law in 1998 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999. She obtained a LL.M degree with a slant in Commercial law from the Cambridge University, England in 2000 where she was as a DFID-Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholar. In 2007, Oduwole received a master's degree in International Legal Studies from Stanford University, USA and was a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN) from 2007 to 2008. She was a visiting scholar at University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas USA from 2008 to 2010 and obtained her doctorate degree in International Trade and Development (WTO Negotiation Strategy) fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Nwaka
Angela may refer to: Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River Fiction * Angela (character), in the ''Spawn'' and Marvel universes * Angela (Inheritance), a character in the Inheritance Cycle novels * Angela Martin, a character in ''The Office'' * Angela, a character in the '' Gargoyles'' TV series * Angela, a character in the ''Stranger Things'' Netflix TV Series, portplayed by Elodie Grace Orkin Music * angela (band), from Japan * ''Angela'' (album) by José Feliciano, 1976 * "Angela" (The Lumineers song), 2016 * "Angela" (Jarvis Cocker song), 2009 * "Angela" (Bee Gees song), 1987 * "Angela", a song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their album ''Some Time in New York City'' * "Angela", a song by Mötley Crüe from ''Decade of Decadence'' * "Angela", a song by Saïan Supa Crew from the album '' KLR'' * "Angela" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Alassane N'Diaye-Riddick
''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, ''Aida'' has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera. Elements of the opera's genesis and sources Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write an opera to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, but Verdi declined. However, Auguste Mariette, a French Egyptologist, proposed to Khedive Pasha a plot for a celebratory opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
