User:Islahaddow/100WikiDays African Women Challenge

100wikidays Challenge

 * 1) Sindiwe Magona
 * 2) Louise Angless
 * 3) Beattie Hofmeyer
 * 4) Gertrude Fester
 * 5) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
 * 6) Leymah Gbowee
 * 7) Tawakkul Karman
 * 8) Waris Dirie
 * 9) Kahena: a Berber queen, religious and military leader.
 * 10) Tin Hinan: Tuareg Queen of the Hoggar
 * 11) Lalla Fatma N'Soumer: was an important figure of the Algerian resistance movement
 * 12) Yamina Mechakra: Algerian writer
 * 13) Houria Aïchi: Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music.
 * 14) Ziza Massika: Women fron the Algerian revolution
 * 15) Assia Djebar: an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.
 * 16) Soraya Haddad: is an Algerian judoka.
 * 17) Hassiba Boulmerka: is a former Algerian middle distance athlete.
 * 18) Meg Coates Palgrave is the author the best tree book ever written in the history of humanity
 * 19) Elsie Owusu of Ghana is the architect who designed the beautiful modern extension of the Green Park tube station
 * 20) Fundza
 * 21) Naseemah Mohamed Ogunnaike co founder of Writivism Cace and educator
 * 22) Colleen Higgs
 * 23) Esther Madudu a rural Ugandan midwife, inspirational, as there's a campaign to nominate her for the 2015 Nobel peace prize.
 * 24) Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Director General of UN Women
 * 25) Heide Hackmann Executive Director of the International Council for Science
 * 26) Alice Nkom Cameroonian lawyer and gay rights campaigner
 * 27) Efua Dorkenoo MBE, campaigner against female genital mutilation
 * 28) Malouma of Mauritaniapolitical singer,
 * 29) Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda
 * 30) Mariama Hima, Niger
 * 31) Safi Faye, Senegal
 * 32) Edwina Spicer, Zimbabwe
 * 33) Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Zimbabwe
 * 34) Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE, Zimbabwe
 * 35) Dr Maty Ba Dia
 * 36) Doreen Sibanda National Gallery of Zimbabwe
 * 37) Hannah Cudjoe  or “Convention Hannah” mobilized a mammoth gathering of Ghanaians from all walks of life. She then led them to petition the colonial masters for the release of the “Big Six”. Hannah is credited as the founder of the All African Women’s league in 1960. http://www.threesixtygh.com/people/the-forgotten-sheroes-of-ghanas-independence/
 * 38) Mabel Dove Danquah the first female member of the legislative Assembly in 1954 in Gold Coast.
 * 39) Ama Nkrumah is our next s’hero’ and a strong pillar when it comes to matters of Ghana’s independence struggle. Ama is no way related to Osagyefo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah, in fact, her real name is unknown but she adopted this name during the colonial era.
 * 40) Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem Queen of Ashanti Kingdom and mother of Ashanti King
 * 41) Mary Grant Dr a pioneer medical doctor and politician
 * 42) Sylvia Boys Dr Mrs first female Registrar of the West African Examination Council
 * 43) Mary Chinery Hesse first female director of ILO and United Nations
 * 44) Peace Ayisi Otchere first female director of the African Development Bank
 * 45) Lella Manoubia  - is a Tunisian holy woman
 * 46) Aziza Othmana  - Tunisian Princess
 * 47) Tawhida Ben Cheikh  - the first woman in North Africa to become a physician.
 * 48) Hanaa Ben Abdesslem  - Tunisian model.
 * 49) Nadia Khiari  - a Tunisian painter.
 * 50) Baya  - Algerian painter
 * 51) Ahlam Mosteghanemi  -  Algerian writer
 * 52) Khadija Benguenna  - Algerian  journalist.
 * 53) Mériem Bouatoura  -
 * 54) Majida Khattari  - Moroccan designers
 * 55) Touria Chaoui  -  the first Moroccan woman to have been a pilot.
 * 56) Bako Dagnon  - Malian griot singer
 * 57) Aoua Kéita  -  Malian independence activist
 * 58) Aminata Dramane Traoré  -  Malian author, politician, and political activist.
 * 59) Helena of Egypt  - Egyptian painter
 * 60) Samia Gamal  - Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.
 * 61) Israa Abdel Fattah  -  Egyptian internet activist and blogger.
 * 62) Farida of Egypt  - queen of Egypt
 * 63) Narriman Sadek  - queen of Egypt
 * 64) Out-el-Kouloub  - Egyptian woman of letters.
 * 65) Ana Clara Guerra Marques  - Angolan professional dancer.
 * 66) Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares  - Angolan poetess.
 * 67) Maria Mambo Café  -  Angolan politician.
 * 68) Whitney Shikongo -  Angolan model.
 * 69) Sophie Oboshie Doku Ghanian independence struggle activist
 * 70) Sussana Al-Hassan Ghanian independence struggle activist.
 * 71) Michaela DePrince She is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer. With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, Michaela authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. http://exposure.org.uk/2015/04/michaela-deprince-surviving-war-torn-sierra-leone/
 * 72) Helen Lieros
 * 73) Malika Belmehdi El Fassi
 * 74) Isatou Touray the first female candidate for President, Gambia