Top 100 Africans
Women of Influence
Professor Wangari Maathai Kenya
A household name globally for her dedication to environmental protection and green issues. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first woman in Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her “contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” She remains one of Africa’s best- known female agents of change on climate and enviromental issues.
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Nigeria
Dr Frannie Léautier Tanzania
Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe South Africa
Co-founder of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), the first Africa-wide grant-making fund, which supports the work of organisations promoting women’s rights in Africa. AWDF has to date supported over 800 women’s organisations in 42 African countries. Bisi, who is married to the governor of Nigeria’s Ekiti State, has served on many platforms. Most recently she was appointed co-chair of the African Grantmakers’ Network, which was launched to promote an African voice in the field of philanthropy.
16 | June 2011 New African
A Tanzanian national of high academic and professional standing, Dr Frannie Léautier is the executive secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation. The ACBF, under Dr Léautier’s tenure has channelled billions of US dollars of donor money into improving human lives and national institutions all over Africa. A former vice president of the World Bank, this powerful but softly-spoken and humble woman has totally transformed the face of the ACBF, to the extent that today when she speaks big men sit up and listen.
Dr Moloi-Motsepe is the founder and CEO of African Fashion International (AFI), which is now a household name for showcasing African fashion design and talent as well as promoting the continent’s textile industry. A medical doctor by profession, she previously worked in public hospitals in Johannesburg and Pretoria, mainly in paediatrics, and due to her interest in women’s health, ran a successful women’s health practice in
Johannesburg, before setting up the AFI.
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