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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
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in Africa and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.
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.
Although her role is largely ceremonial (with most executive power lying with the prime minister), Sahle-Work's election made her Ethiopia's first female head of state since Empress Zewditu. [8] At the time she was appointed, Sahle-Work was the only female head of state in Africa, [4] and by 2021, she was one of two alongside Samia Suluhu of ...
Banda was Malawi's fourth president [6] its first female president and second female head of state, after Elizabeth II. She was the second woman to become the president in the African continent, [5] after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was also the country's first female vice-president. [7]
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]
Category listing the first female national presidents in Africa. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Pages in category "First women presidents in Africa"