Just In: Avance Media Announces 2021 100 Most Influential African Women list
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Avance Media, a leading African PR and rating agency, has released the list of Africa’s 100 Most Influential African Women for 2021. Since 2019, Avance Media has published three lists honoring African women in leadership who inspire the next generation of women around the world.
Women from 28 African countries are represented on the 2021 list, with backgrounds in business, academics, diplomacy, philanthropy, entertainment, and journalism.
The honourees on the list qualified for this deserving honor because of their works and accomplishments, which continue to inspire a lot of young people across the African continent and beyond, according to Prince Akpah, Managing Director of Avance Media. The honourees on the list were put together with inspiration from the 2021 International Women’s Day theme: “Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.”
The 100 influential African women were chosen based on criteria that included their leadership and personal accomplishments, commitment to sharing knowledge, and the audacity to challenge various established quos, he added.
Presidents of Ethiopia and Tanzania respectively, Amina J. Mohammed (H.E), Sahle-Work Zewde (H.E), and Samia Suluhu Hassan (H.E), Victoire Tomegah Dogbé, Prime Minister of Togo, Jessica Rose Epel Alupo (H.E), Mariam Chabi Talata (H.E), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Trade Organization Director-General, and Angela Kyere
Namibia’s Deputy ICT Minister, Hon. Emma Theofelus is the youngest honoree on the list for the second time.
On 100 women.avancemedia.org, profiles of the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2021 are published.
The 100 Most Influential African Women in 2021, as compiled by Avance Media, are listed alphabetically below.
Agnes Binagwaho (Prof) || Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
Agnes Matilda Kalibata (Dr) || CEO, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Ahunna Eziakonwa || Director, UNDP Africa
Aisha Yesufu || Activist
Aja Fatoumata C.M. Jallow-Tambajang (H.E.) || Former Vice-President, Gambia
Allen Kagina || Executive Director, Uganda National Roads Authority.
Amina J. Mohammed (H.E) || Deputy Secretary General, United Nations
Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh || Regional Head, IBM North, East and West Africa
Angèle Makombo || President, League of Congolese Democrats
Angélique Kidjo || Musician
Anne Waiguru (H.E.) || Governor, Kirinyaga County
Athaliah Molokomme || Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN
Awa Ndiaye-Seck || Resident Representative UN Women, Democratic Republic of the Congo