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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]
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.
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]
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. [34]
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