Meet Africa’s biggest female bosses leading male-dominated industries

For African women, history shows that it took a very long time for them to enjoy basic human rights. Women and children are regarded as the weaker sex who suffer the most in society.

Through the fight for equality and provision of human rights and privileges to women in society, they have proven that they are a force to reckon with and a set back is no reason not to rise as fast they can.

Day in and out, many African women are leading and dominating the spaces they find themselves but only a few are the real bosses of male-dominated industries.

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