Michelle Mrema: those with different abilities deserve to be empowered to reach their highest potential.

Michelle Mrema

Former Miss Africa Michelle Mrema is a leading Tanzanian business executive who believes those with different abilities deserve to be empowered to reach their highest potential. She supports people with different abilities to push their agenda in the public domain to get the societal help and understanding they need. She believes that businesses should drive improvements in the accessibility…

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Soipan Tuya: Maa Woman making Big Strides

By Linnet Muchoki  Roselinda Soipan Tuya, is Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Environment and Forestry. She was born in 1979 in Narok County. She is the daughter of former Narok South Member of Parliament Samson Ole Tuya. Her mother had no formal education, and her father was the only one among 15 siblings to attend school. Her father…

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Rebecca Miano: Lawyer, Woman of ‘Energy” now in charge of Kenya’s affairs in  East African Community, Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

Rebecca Miano

By Linnet Muchoki  The soft-spoken lady is the first female Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen). Such an achievement by itself, in a highly ‘mele’ Kenya world, talks a lot about what kind of a person she is. Her name is  Rebecca Miano. In September 2022, President William Ruto appointed to serve in the…

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Hon Aisha Jumwa: Pregnant Form Two, Two failed Marriages, a Murder Charge, but made it to the Cabinet

Aisha Jumwa

By Linnet Muchoki  Hon Aisha Jumwa’s (2022) colourful life is heroic, amazing, depressing, daring, depressing, and so many other things. That is, depending on which angle you are looking at, her rise and rise in politics and public service. She is the  Cabinet secretary of Public Service Gender and Affirmative Action in the 6th National Cabinet in Kenya, led…

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MELANIE HAWKEN describes herself as a social entrepreneur and a champion of African Women Entrepreneurs.

She is the founder and CEO of Lionesses of Africa Public Benefit Corporation, which she says is “a 930,000+ strong community working to grow women’s entrepreneurship in Africa and supporting the start-up dreams of all women on the continent.” “I passionately believe it’s time to provide the support, the business tools and inspiration to ensure the next generation of…

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Ms. Sylvia Mwichuli: African journalists must be at the center stage of the development story

By GoldenWoman.org Writer Her name is Ms. Sylvia Mwichuli. She is an agent of change. Over the years, as a top communication guru in diverse organizations, she has encouraged journalists across Africa, to take the development story, from the African perspective more seriously. Her love for mother Africa is indisputable. Traveling across cities in Africa, she has made an…

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