Today, on Africa Day, I’m reflecting on the privilege I had last week of speaking at the HER Economy Women Inclusion Summit on a subject deeply connected to the future of our continent: women, capital, ownership, and economic power.
As Africa continues to rise, we cannot speak about the continent’s development without speaking about women, not only as participants in the economy, but as leaders, owners, investors, decision-makers, and architects of the systems that shape it.
For too long, women have been invited into economies, systems, structures they did not design. Included in systems, but too often excluded from ownership, control, and real power.
African women have always sustained economies.
Now we must also lead them, own in them, design them, and reimagine them.
Happy Africa Day. 🌍