Above: Queen Nzinga M'Bandi of N'Dongo and Matamba (Angola and Congo), Regent Queen Mother Regnant Njapdungke of Bamum (Cameroon), Anti-Apartheid Leader Nomzano Winnie Mandela in South Africa and Acting Chief Executive Angie Elizabeth Brooks-Randolph, Liberia; MIDDLE: Sultan Fatimah of North, Zanzibar (Tanzania), Edwesohemaa Nana Yaa Asantewaa of Edweso (Ghana), Politically Influential Menem Asfaw of Ethiopia, Politically Influential Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings in Ghana; BELOW: Ret Abudok nya Bwoc of Shilluk (Sudan), Politically Active Empress Uelete Rufael of Ethiopia and Queen Mother Ndlorukazi Nandi of the Zulu Kingdom (South Africa)
Powerful, Influential and Prominent African Women Leaders from 1623
By Fatoumata Fofana
Published: 20 February, 2008
Today, the Daily Observer's Women and Family Desk will like to take you down the path of history by giving you the opportunity to know and be enlightened about pivotal roles played by some great and influential African women across the continent including our own 'Iron Lady', President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
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