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Climate articles
[edit]Category:Environment of Africa
Category:Climate change in Africa
Climate change and infectious diseases § Malaria
Effects of climate change on human health
Effects of climate change on agriculture § Africa
Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa
Climate change in South Africa § Greenhouse gas emissions
Climate change in Kenya § Greenhouse gas emissions
Recognised states
[edit]The following 54 fully recognised states are all members of the United Nations[1] and the African Union.[2][3][4][5]
Wiki Loves Women Event Toolkit
[edit]Helpful toolkit links:
- Toolkit for managing online contests compiled by Dr. Blofeld
- http://www.artandfeminism.org/organizing-kit/
- http://www.artandfeminism.org/editing-kit/
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100wikidays Challenge
[edit]- Sindiwe Magona
- Louise Angless
- Beattie Hofmeyer
- Gertrude Fester
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakkul Karman
- Waris Dirie
- Kahena: a Berber queen, religious and military leader.
- Tin Hinan: Tuareg Queen of the Hoggar
- Lalla Fatma N'Soumer: was an important figure of the Algerian resistance movement
- Yamina Mechakra: Algerian writer
- Houria Aïchi: Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music.
- Ziza Massika: Women fron the Algerian revolution
- Assia Djebar: an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.
- Soraya Haddad: is an Algerian judoka.
- Hassiba Boulmerka: is a former Algerian middle distance athlete.
- Meg Coates Palgrave is the author the best tree book ever written in the history of humanity
- Elsie Owusu of Ghana is the architect who designed the beautiful modern extension of the Green Park tube station
- Fundza
- Naseemah Mohamed Ogunnaike co founder of Writivism Cace and educator
- Colleen Higgs
- Esther Madudu a rural Ugandan midwife, inspirational, as there's a campaign to nominate her for the 2015 Nobel peace prize.
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Director General of UN Women
- Heide Hackmann Executive Director of the International Council for Science
- Alice Nkom Cameroonian lawyer and gay rights campaigner
- Efua Dorkenoo MBE, campaigner against female genital mutilation
- Malouma of Mauritaniapolitical singer,
- Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda
- Mariama Hima, Niger
- Safi Faye, Senegal
- Edwina Spicer, Zimbabwe
- Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Zimbabwe
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE, Zimbabwe
- Dr Maty Ba Dia
- Doreen Sibanda National Gallery of Zimbabwe
- 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/
- Mabel Dove Danquah the first female member of the legislative Assembly in 1954 in Gold Coast.
- 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.
- Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem Queen of Ashanti Kingdom and mother of Ashanti King
- Mary Grant Dr a pioneer medical doctor and politician
- Sylvia Boys Dr Mrs first female Registrar of the West African Examination Council
- Mary Chinnery Hesse first female director of ILO and United Nations
- Peace Ayisi Otchere first female director of the African Development Bank
- Lella Manoubia - is a Tunisian holy woman
- Aziza Othmana - Tunisian Princess
- Tawhida Ben Cheikh - the first woman in North Africa to become a physician.
- Hanaa Ben Abdesslem - Tunisian model.
- Nadia Khiari - a Tunisian painter.
- Baya - Algerian painter
- Ahlam Mosteghanemi - Algerian writer
- Khadija Benguenna - Algerian journalist.
- Mériem Bouatoura -
- Majida Khattari - Moroccan designers
- Touria Chaoui - the first Moroccan woman to have been a pilot.
- Bako Dagnon - Malian griot singer
- Aoua Kéita - Malian independence activist
- Aminata Dramane Traoré - Malian author, politician, and political activist.
- Helena of Egypt - Egyptian painter
- Samia Gamal - Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.
- Israa Abdel Fattah - Egyptian internet activist and blogger.
- Farida of Egypt - queen of Egypt
- Narriman Sadek - queen of Egypt
- Out-el-Kouloub - Egyptian woman of letters.
- Ana Clara Guerra Marques - Angolan professional dancer.
- Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares - Angolan poetess.
- Maria Mambo Café - Angolan politician.
- Whitney Shikongo - Angolan model.
- Sophie Oboshie Doku Ghanian independence struggle activist
- Sussana Al-Hassan Ghanian independence struggle activist.
- Reda Kerbouche
- Funmilayo Ransome Kuti – The Woman Activist
- Yaa Asantewa – The Commander in Chief
- Winnie Mandela
- Margaret Ekpo – Nigeria
- Queen Nzinga or Queen Jinga – The reformist
- Ruth Williams, Lady Khama
South Africa's notable events and organisations
[edit]- Federation of South African Women
- Defiance Campaign in 1952
- A Women’s Charter 1952
- Women's March 9 August 1956
- Garment Workers Union
- The Black Sash is formed in 1955.
- History of women's rights in South Africa
South Africa's notable women
[edit]- Wendy Appelbaum
- Wendy Ackerman
- Francis Baard is a member of the committee that produces the draft copy of the Freedom Charter.
- Santie Botha
- Elisabeth Bradley
- Sonia Bunting is one of the keynote speakers at the Congress of the People in Kliptown in 1955
- Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane
- Patricia De Lille
- Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Natalie du Toit
- Pam Golding
- Zainunnisa ‘Cissie’ Gool founds the National Liberation League in 1936. She represents District Six in 1938 on the Cape Town City Council, the first coloured woman in on this all-white council, retaining the position until 1951. She is also elected president of the Non-European United Front (NEUF) in 1940. She features prominently in Cape Town’s political landscape for most of her life.
- Ferial Haffajee
- Patricia Jobodwana the youngest black woman to enrol at a university – at Fort Hare, aged 14, for a degree in medicine
- Gail Kelly
- Basetsana Kumalo
- Leleti Khumalo
- Wendy Luhabe
- Graça Machel
- Thuli Madonsela
- Miriam Makeba
- Phuti Malabie
- Mary Malahlela-Xakana the first female black doctor in South Africa in 1947
- Gill Marcus
- Masingita Masunga
- Charlotte Maxeke - founder of Bantu Women's League of the South African Native National Congress in 1918, and in 1905 the first black woman in the country to earn her Bachelor’s degree
- Fatima Meer in 1949 establishes the Durban Districts Women’s League, 1954 founder and chief architect of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW). It unites women from the ANC,the South African Indian Congress, trade unions and self-help groups, and will be instrumental in women’s fight against the degrading pass book laws of the National Party.
- Michelle Meyjes
- Precious Moloi-Motsepe
- Futhi Mtoba
- Ida Mtwana - first president of ANC Women's League and Treason Trial defendant
- Nthati Moshesh
- Nicky Newton-King
- Wendy Ngoma
- Lillian Ngoyi joins the ANC in 1952 and is arrested in the same year for her involvement in the Defiance Campaign. She is elected president of the ANCWL in 1953. Lillian becomes the first woman elected to the ANC National Executive Committee in 1956?.
- Nonkuleleko Nyembezi-Heita
- Naledi Pandor
- Bridgette Radebe
- Christine Ramon
- Maria Ramos
- Mamphela Ramphele
- Jane Raphaely
- Helen Suzman represents the United Party in Parliament in 1953. When the Progressive Party is formed in 1959, Helen is once again its sole representative on Parliament’s benches. Her lone crusade in a mostly male environment will earn her the respect and love of most South Africans.
- Adelaide Tambo
- Terry Volkwyn
- Esmaré Weideman
- Helen Zille
- Professor Shirley Zinn
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- ^ "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
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