Who attended College of West Africa and is the first elected female head of state in Africa?
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College of West Africa The College of West Africa is a Methodist high school in Monrovia, Liberia. The school was opened in 1839 (as the "Monrovia Seminary"), making it one of the oldest European-style schools in Africa. It has produced many of Liberia's leaders and includes among its alumni Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected as president in an African state, and Liberian Vice President Joseph Boakai.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who serves as the 24th and current President of Liberia since 2006. Sirleaf is the first elected female head of state in Africa.
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Raychelle Omamo Omamo studied law at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. She is a Senior Counsel and an Advocate of the High Court for 27 years. She was the first female chairperson of the Law Society of Kenya from 2001 to 2003 after serving as a council member from 1996 to 2000 and Kenyan first female ambassador to France, Portugal, The Holy See and Serbia as well as the Permanent Delegate of the Kenya to UNESCO. She was a member of the Task Force on the Establishment of the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission for Kenya.
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Bourkou Louise Kabo Bourkou Louise Kabo (1934-) is a Chadian politician. She was the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly of Chad.
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Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (born Bianca Odinaka Olivia Onoh, 5 August 1968) is a Nigerian businesswoman, politician, diplomat, and lawyer and multiple pageant titleholder. A winner of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Pageant, She was also Miss Africa and is best known as the first African to win Miss Intercontinental. Formerly Nigeria's Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Affairs and the country's ambassador to Ghana and Spain, she is now Nigeria's permanent representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
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Grace Mugabe Grace "Gucci Grace" Mugabe (née Marufu, 23 July 1965) is the wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from her marriage to the leader in 1996.
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Isabel dos Santos Isabel dos Santos (born 20 April 1973) is an Angolan businesswoman. In 2013, according to research by "Forbes", her net worth had reached more than three billion US dollars, making her Africa’s first billionaire woman. She is the daughter of Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled the country since 1979. A "Forbes" magazine article described in 2013 how Isabel dos Santos acquired her wealth by taking stakes in companies doing business in Angola, suggesting that her wealth comes almost entirely from her family's power and connections. In November 2015, the BBC named Isabel dos Santos as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.
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Zeinab Jammeh Zeinab Suma Jammeh (born (1977--) 05, 1977 ) is the former First Lady of the Gambia and the main wife of the former President of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh.
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Angie Brooks Angie Elizabeth Brooks (August 24, 1928 – September 9, 2007) was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She is notable for being the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N.
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Senedu Gebru Woizero Senedu Gebru (ሰንዱ ገብሩ) (13 January 1916 – 20 April 2009) was an Ethiopian educator, writer and politician. In 1957, she became the first Ethiopian woman elected to Parliament.
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Charlotte Osei Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei (born 1 February 1969) is the current chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. She became the first female to serve in this office since the independence of Ghana. Before her appointment she was the chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education.
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Martha Nelumbu Martha Mwadinomho Kristian Nelumbu (born 1930) is the Queen of the Kwanyama, a dynasty of the Ovambo people in northern Namibia. She was appointed in November 2005, succeeding her cousin Kornelius Mwetupunga Shelungu. She is the first woman leader to head this traditional authority.
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Sinhalese: සිරිමා රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක , Tamil: சிறிமா ரத்வத்தே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கே ; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000), commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike (the suffix "vo" denotes respect), was a Sri Lankan stateswoman and politician and the modern world's first female head of government. She served as Prime Minister of Ceylon and Sri Lanka three times, 1960–65, 1970–77 and 1994–2000, and was a long-time leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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Specioza Kazibwe Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe, is a Ugandan surgeon and politician. She is also referred to as "Nnalongo", because of her twin daughters. She was Vice President of Uganda from 1994 to 2003. She was the first woman in Africa to hold the position of vice-president of a sovereign nation. In August 2013, she was appointed by the United Nations's Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon as "United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa".
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Krishnagar Women's College Krishnagar Women's College, established in 1958, is a women's college in Krishnagar, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts and sciences. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani. Manabi Bandopadhyay, India's first openly transgender college principal, began work as such as the principal of Krishnagar Women's College in 2015.
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Clara Belle Williams Clara Belle Williams was the first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University.
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Barewa College Barewa College is a college in Zaria, Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. Founded in 1921 by British Governor General Hugh Clifford, it was originally known as "Katsina College." It switched its name to "Kaduna College" in 1938 and then "Government College, Zaria" in 1949 before settling on "Barewa College."
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First Lady of South Africa The First Lady of South Africa is the title held by the wife or most senior wife of the President of South Africa.
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Anita Fabiola Anita was born in 1994 in Kampala Uganda. She attended St. Francis primary school, and then joined London college of St. Lawrence for both "O" and "A" levels. She then attended Makerere University from where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in mass communication.
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Elizabeth Ofili Elizabeth Odilile Ofili (born 1956) is a Nigerian-American physician and cardiology researcher. She was the first woman to become president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
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President of Nigeria The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria. The President of Nigeria is also the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The President is elected in national elections which take place every four years. The first President of Nigeria was Nnamdi Azikiwe, who took office on 1 October 1963. The current President, Muhammadu Buhari, took office on 29 May 2015 as the 15th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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First Lady of Ghana The First Lady of Ghana is the title of the wife of a sitting President of Ghana. The current First Lady is Rebecca Akufo-Addo.