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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Happy IWD 2018! Celebrating Community and Sisterhood through Music

Music is such a powerful source, it makes us dance, sing and express ourselves as African women. Music can be a conduit for art, activism. This year we celebrate African women artists who are blazing trails in their various industries. What better way than to celebrate the following artists including, from South Africa to Senegal we wanted you to jam and celebrate African female uniqueness through music this year. Some featured artists include Yvonne Chaka Chaka from South Africa, Maame Afon from Ghana, Oumou Sangare from Mali, India Arie from the United States and so much more. We hope you enjoy this spotify playlist and remember to celebrate all the women doing amazing things this year! To listen to our spotify playlist click WCA IWD 2018 Playlist. Happy International Women's Day let's celebrate all of our achievements!

From the WCA Team.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Whole Woman Whole Leader for a whole World Maame Afon for Afroelle Magazine

In our continued partnership with Afroelle Magazine, our editor in chief conduced an interview of Maame Afon. Maame is a Ghanian American artist, singer, feminist, activist, social change agent, wife, christian and a whole woman. Her story will give you so much wisdom, and we hope you enjoy her interview on Afroelle magazine June Issue .

Moiyattu Banya is Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Women|Change|Africa. She has over 10 years plus experience on working on women and gender issues both on the African continent and in the diaspora and has lead digital campaigns, and communication strategies for a multiple of women owned brands and organizations. Out of her passion to tell stories both in the digital space and in writing, she created WCA in 2012. The platform has celebrated over 50+ brands, companies and organizations owned by African women living both in the diaspora and on the continent. In 2014 she was selected out of 200 women to participate in the African Women’s Development Fund Creative Non Fiction Writing Course in Entebbe Uganda an experience that forever changed her writing journey. She is a social entrepreneur by training and has a masters in social enterprise and administration from Columbia University’s School of Social work.