Power Women Africa
A power list that looks past the C-suite. Returners after maternity, pay-gap champions, founders on their second start, mid-career VPs, and the women rewriting how work works across the continent.
- 50Honourees
- 4Cover profiles/yr
- 12Sectors
- 0%Quota thinking
Women's lists have a pattern: pick the most senior woman at the biggest bank, add a minister, add a founder-with-a-fund, print. Power Women Africa won't do that. We'll include the CEO — and we'll include the engineer who shipped a flagship product while on maternity, the HR director who closed a company's pay gap, the operator who negotiated a returnship program. The goal is a list that tells working African women their careers are being watched, not just their titles.
The signals that put someone on the list
Beyond the C-suite
We profile VPs, directors, founders, operators and senior specialists — not only the five women at the top of the org chart.
The pay and policy lever
Honourees often changed something structural: closed a pay gap, built a return-to-work program, shifted hiring, changed maternity.
Second-act leaders
Women who rebuilt after breaks, reinvented mid-career, or turned corporate into their own venture.
The Africa Pay-Gap Report 2026
Sector-by-sector compensation gaps across Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo, Joburg, Accra and Kigali. Free with your email.