On a bright January morning in Accra, the air inside Ghana’s Parliament carried more weight than usual. Cameras flashed, cheers erupted, and history quietly shifted as Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang was sworn in as Ghana’s first female vice-president. For many, this was just another inauguration. For women across the continent, it was a victory decades

Eunice Peneti, 30, becomes the first female driver in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Eunice, who was already a trailblazer as a member of Team Lioness, recently became the first female ranger in Amboseli to learn to drive and acquire a license.Driving is still seen as a predominantly male activity in the patriarchal Maasai society, with

Tasmida Johar, India’s first woman graduate from the displaced Rohingya group, says she is experiencing a “conflicting feeling” these days. “These headlines, ‘first this, first that,’ make me happy, but they also make me sad.” “I am happy because this is my achievement, getting this far,” she told Al Jazeera as she sat in a

The Servicio de Vigilancia Aérea (SVA) – Costa Rica’s Air Surveillance Service – has mechanics, pilots, and police officers trained in the Aviation Program that the US Government gives to the SVA of Costa Rica through the INL. Yuriana Arnesto is Costa Rica’s first qualified female UH-1ST helicopter pilot.The United States government is an unquestionable

Paulina Chiziane is the first woman to publish a novel in Mozambique, has become the first African woman to receive the most important award for Portuguese literature, the Camões Prize. She’s also the first to break all the rules about what a writer may reveal about Mozambique’s patriarchal culture and social taboos. Born in Manjacaze