AFSA Presents:

MAMA AFRICA
Nigerian musician
Alek Wek
ASA

Nigerian musician
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Survivor of the 1994 Rwadan genocide
angele locoh-donou
Togolese adviser to the executive director for Africa on the World Bank’s
Board of Directors, designer
Nadia Buari
Ghanaain actress
Liya Kebede
Somalien model, World-health organization ambassador
Queen Nzinga
queen
Dr. Amina Mohamed Abdi, Dr. Hawa Abdi (the
mother) and Dr. Deqa Mohamed Abdi
Somalia practicing medicine despite all the violence that surrounds them
and they continue to help their people. They have recently received the
Glamour Woman of the Year Award in 2010
Mpule Kwelagobe
Miss UNiverse
Unity Dow
first woman to be appointed a high court judge in Botswana.
Wangari Maathai- Environn
Nobel Prize winner
Madam Yoko
Tabitha Boutros
Prime-minister
Julia Ojiambo
former school teacher and minister for education of Mozambique.
-       She has been involved in humanitarian projects throughout most of her life.
-       She is the widow of Mozambican president Samora Machel and is currently married to Nelson
Mandela.
Nefertiti means the beautiful one has arrived
 Known for her leadership along her husband, King Akhenaten, especially in diplomatic matters
She helped introduce monotheism (worship of one God)
-Egyptian Queen 51-30 B.C.
Often known as the last pharaoh (ruler) of Egypt
Khartoum, Sudan
-Queen of Henna)
- musician
-known for being one very few female singers w/ high status of fame in Sudan
-while she is known for her Sudanese songs, she is known including touches of Ugandan, Ethiopian, Chadian, Senegal, and Sierra Leonian sounds and culture in her song!
Amani- Kenya
-Real name is Cecilia Warimou
-Pop musician
-Won the Best Female Award at the 2009 MTV Africa Awards