The Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa has
announced the 2017 MILEAD (Moremi Initiative Leadership,
Empowerment and Development) Fellows.
This new cohort of
MILEAD Fellows represents Africa’s most promising young
women leaders, who possess the courage and commitment to lead
and shape the future of Africa.
The Fellows were chosen through a
highly competitive selection process based on their outstanding
leadership promise, community service accomplishments, and
commitment to the advancement of women in Africa.
Zambia’s Sithembile Ncube, is a community leader passionate
about STEAM education and promoting the use of creative
technology within Africa.
Through two organizations that she co-
founded, namely MakerHut and Ubongo Game Lab, she is
currently implementing a makerspace program for youth in
Zambia as well as an annual all-female game development
bootcamp.
She is also a member of the Asikana Network, a
women in technology support organization in Zambia. She is a
Computer Science student at the Nelson Mandela University.
In the pursuit of her passion, she has been volunteering for the last
3 years as a Regional Organizer for the Global Game Jam, seeking
and approving communities in Africa to be part of the world’s
largest game development event.
She is also working as an
assistant curator for AMAZE Johannesburg, an international
games and playful media festival, and hopes to continue being a
part of initiatives bringing Africans together who are building a
unique and exciting future for the continent.
The Moremi Initiative is generously supporting each fellow with a
partial grant to attend the 3 week leadership summit in Ghana.
Sithembile is currently raising funds to contribute to the
remainder of her participation fee for the MILEAD Fellows
institute.
If you would like to support her, you can contribute at https://tinyurl.com/sithembile-milead
The 2017 MILEAD Fellows represent a truly Pan-African
diversity. Representing 26 African countries and the Diaspora, the
2017 Fellows bring highly diverse socio-political backgrounds
combined with multi-disciplinary academic and professional
experiences and aspirations.
The Fellows are between the ages of
19 and 25, and are already actively leading change on pertinent
issues at many levels – from entrepreneurship, economic justice
and women’s health, to political participation, environmental
innovations and gender justice.
They are a new generation of
African women leaders ready to provide the bold and inspirational
leadership needed to lift Africa to its rightful place on the global
stage.
Here are the honoured 2017 Fellows:
Arielle AHOUANSOU [Benin]
Goabaone Banyaditse [Botswana]
Marie-Florence Koikou [Cote d’Ivoire]
Brenda Fuen Formin [Cameroon]
Christina Van Hooreweghe Ngoy [DRC]
Aya ElHossiny [Egypt]
Sosina Geletta [Ethiopia]
Aji Sainey Kah [Gambia]
Tamarah Moutotekema Boussamba [Gabon]
Maame Darkwaa Twum Barima [Ghana]
Iris Kwafo-Mensah [Ghana]
Hellen Kyambi Kimanzi [Kenya]
Josephine Tenezee Somah [Liberia]
Fiskani Malisawa Kondowe [Malawi]
Holiarisoa Idah RAZAFINDRAKOTO [Madagasca]
Marie Gabriella R. Batour [Mauritious]
Halimatou Zika Sombeize [Niger]
Zimchim Andrea Agomoh [Nigeria]
Sandra Musu Jusu [Sierra Leone]
Grace Ineza Umuhoza [Rwanda]
Rugiyatu Kane [Senegal]
Khutso Tsikane [South Africa]
Farah Hassan Gassim Ahmed [Sudan]
Julieth Sheba Bilakwate [Tanzania]
Ruth Nabembezi [Uganda]
Sithembile Ncube [Zambia]
Lisa Nyamadzawo [Zimbabwe]
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