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“… a lot of friends felt I was wasting my time. I had friends in fields like Engineering and Medicine that would come to my department and see me and my classmates dancing and they would be like ‘did you actually come to school to do this?’ It was crazy, but today, I thank…
Irene Koki Mutungi is the first African female pilot to fly the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft. Irene Koki Mutugi was born 1976, her father, Captain Mutungi, was a commercial pilot. She was only 17 when she became the first female pilot in Kenya. “I always wanted to become a pilot.It is thrilling. I was very…
Amsale Gualu became the first female Ethiopian Airlines captain in 2010 and sixth female pilot in Ethiopia. Amsale was born, 1977, in Bahir Dar and raised in Addis Ababa. She initially applied to Ethiopian Airlines to become a pilot but wasn’t accepted, so she moved on to get a BA in Architecture from the Addis…
Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo is the first Nigerian female pilot to work at Qatar Airways. She is also the first Nigerian female pilot to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Aircraft accross the Atlantic. Adeola is from Ogbomosho town in Oyo State. She graduated from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Ogbomosho. She was also trained…
“I started small with support from my parents. I began with making handmade skincare products from the backyard at home. I sold to my mom’s salon, farmers market, pop-up shops, and friends… Getting clients to believe in you is hard. To tackle this, I give free samples for trials and this has worked. They usually…
“After finishing university, I realised that it was very difficult to get a job. I did some casual jobs, but I realised I could not depend on someone to fulfill all my needs.” 28year old Assumpta had even sold vegetables in Nyabugogo, Kigali, before she went into beetroot growing and realised it was a profitable…
“I began Garden of Coffee so that people everywhere can experience the magic of hand-roasted Ethiopian coffees, roasted at their source by Ethiopia’s finest coffee artisans. My driving passions as an entrepreneur are always about sharing Ethiopian cultures with the world and finding exciting ways to keep these cultures vibrant and fully relevant. I completed…
” Having grown up watching our family and neighbors struggling, we decided to create the “better life” we were all waiting for by harnessing our community’s incredible artisan skills and channeling them into a sustainable, global, fair trade footwear business. We have done that and more and we are proud to say that the soleRebels…
