NAIROBI, Kenya, May 5-Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga is among 12 African women leaders who have been selected to join the Amujae Initiative, a flagship program under the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (EJS) Presidential Center for Women and Development.
The project, started in 2020 by Sirleaf, the former president of Liberia, which aims to motivate and train women to enter and succeed in positions.
Wanga will now be part of the third cohort of leaders from 10 countries that include government ministers, MPs, senior government advisors and activists.
They are all engaged with issues ranging from economic development to gender equality and youth empowerment.
“I am incredibly proud to be welcoming the EJS Center’s third cohort of Amujae leaders, these 12 women have already demonstrated staggering success over the course of their careers and have the ambition and commitment to enact real change as public leaders,” Sirleaf said.
She said that by building on the foundations set by the first two cohorts of Amujae leaders, the group will succeed.
EJS was established in 2018 to assist unleash the continent of Africa’s most abundant latent power its women as a catalyst for political and social transformation.
Sirleaf is Africa’s first democratically elected female leader.
According to Oley Dibba-Wada EJS Center interim Executive Director, the group will be supported by a distinguished group of Amujae coaches, including former heads of state and leaders of international institutions.
“There is no program like the Amujae Initiative out there, and it fills me with the hope that another 12 brilliant African women will be joining the sisterhood to continue their development as public leaders,” he said.
There are 42 Amujae leaders in total, divided across three cohorts that began in 2020.
All female executives with a track record of performing public service work are eligible for selection.
Following the completion of a series of essay prompts, candidates are invited to an interview.
