From Academic Setback to the DRC’s First Female Prime Minister

Picture a young woman standing outside an examination hall in Belgium, holding a paper that says she has failed her second year of university. She is far from home. Her…

From Defeat to the Presidency: How Halla Tómasdóttir Turned Setbacks into Leadership

Reykjavík, 1968. A plumber and a social educator welcomed a daughter on 11 October. Nothing about her birth suggested that she would one day become president. There was no political…

From McDonald’s Counter to Thailand’s Top Job: The Rise and Fall of Paetongtarn Shinawatra

From McDonald’s Counter to Thailand’s Top Job: The Rise and Fall of Paetongtarn Shinawatra In March 2004, an 18-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra put on a red-and-yellow uniform and stood behind a…

She Refused to Be Silenced: How Mo Abudu Built a Global Film Empire Despite AI Fraud, Legal Battles, and Industry Doubts

There is a woman in Lagos whose face has been stolen and manipulated by artificial intelligence, whose voice has been cloned to deceive unsuspecting victims, and whose reputation has been…

MEET THE SHERO: Oyinkasola Badejo Okusanya

Born on January 15, 1967, in Lagos State, Oyinkasola Badejo-Okusanya is the first child of the late Olufolabi Olumide, a general surgeon who became the first vice-chancellor of Lagos State…

Raffaella Petrini and the First Woman to Govern Vatican City State

Raffaella Petrini was born in Rome on January 15, 1969. Nothing marked her birth as extraordinary, yet she would grow up to achieve something no woman in the history of…