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The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Category listing female national presidents in Africa. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Subcategories
Parliamentary Secretary to the President – Jean M. Mlanga – 1966 [120] Minister of State for Women's and Children’s Affairs – Edda E. Chitalo – 1994 [120] Foreign minister – Lilian Patel – 2000 [83] Interior minister – Anna Kachikho – 2005 [121] Vice President – Joyce Banda – 2009 [122] President – Joyce Banda – 2012 [123]
Sarah Nnadzwa was born in Kwara State in March 1945, before Nigeria was an independent nation. [2] She is of the Nupe tribe in Pategi local government area of Kwara State.She had her secondary education at Queen Elizabeth School, Ilorin, where she played basketball and was a house sport captain who competed in high jump and sprinting events. [3]
Sahle-Work Zewde (Amharic: ሣህለ ወርቅ ዘውዴ, born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian diplomat who served as president of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2024, the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018. [1]
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According to a 2013 study by Abrahams, [74] South Africa has the fourth highest rate of female homicide with 12.9 per 100,000 women being murdered by intimate partners in South Africa annually. With a rate of 7.5/100,000 women, women in South Africa are four times more likely to be murdered with a gun than a woman in the United States.
UNESCO: Laureate of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for Africa [27] United Kingdom : Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (2007) [ 27 ] United Kingdom : In 2024, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim won and accepted the International Women of the Year Award at EPG's 16th Annual Political & Public Life Awards at the House of Commons .