List of the first female holders of political offices in Africa
Main article: List of the first female holders of political offices
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Algeria
- Minister of Culture – Nadia Labidi – 2014
- Minister of Education – Nouria Benghabrit-Remaoun – 2014
- Minister of Land-Use Planning and Environment – Dalila Boudjemaa – 2014
- Minister of Family and Women – Mounia Meslem – 2014
- Minister of Post,Information Technology and Communication Women – Zahra Dardouri – 2014
- Minister of Tourism – Nouria Yamina Zerhouni – 2014
- Minister of Artisana & Handicrafts Aish Tabagho – 2014
Benin
Botswana
- Foreign minister – Gaositwe K.T. Chiepe – 1985
- Chairperson of the House of Chiefs – Mosadi Seboko – 2003 [1]
Burundi
- Prime Minister – Sylvie Kinigi – 1993
- President (acting) – Sylvie Kinigi – 1993
- Foreign minister – Antoinette Batumubwira – 2006
Cape Verde
- Foreign minister – Fátima Veiga – 2002
- Defence minister – Cristina Fontes Lima – 2006
Central African Republic
- Government minister – Marie-Joséphe Franck – 1970
- Prime Minister – Elisabeth Domitien – 1975
- Foreign minister – Léonie Banga-Bothy – 2013
- Head of State – Catherine Samba-Panza – 2014
Comoros
- Member of the Assembly of the Union of the Comoros – Djoueria Abdallah – 2004
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zaire
- Foreign minister – Ekila Liyonda – 1987
Egypt
Ancient
- Pharaoh (Head of state) – Sobekneferu – 1806 BC (first known female Head of state in history)
Mamluk Sultanate
- Sultana (Head of state) – Shajar al-Durr – 1250 (first female Head of state in the Arab world)
Republic
- Member of Parliament – Rawya Ateya – 1957 (first female MP in the Arab world)
- Minister (for Social Affairs) – Dr. Hikmat Abu Zayd – 1962 [2]
- Mayor – Eva Habil, (Komboha) – 2008
Ethiopia
Gabon
- Foreign minister – Pascaline Mferri Bongo – 1991
- President (interim) – Rose Francine Rogombé – 2009
- Speaker of Senate – Rose Francine Rogombé – 2009
The Gambia
- Vice President – Isatou Njie-Saidy – 1997
- Foreign minister – Susan Waffa-Ogoo – 2012
Ghana
- Foreign minister – Gloria Amon Nikoi – 1979
Guinea
- Foreign minister – Mahawa Bangoura – 2000
Guinea-Bissau
- President (acting) – Carmen Pereira – 1984
- Foreign minister – Hilia Barber – 1999
- Defence minister – Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote – 2005
- Prime Minister (acting) – Adiato Djaló Nandigna – 2012
Kenya
Kenya Colony
- Mayor of Nairobi – Lady Gwladys Delamere – 1938
Republic
- Foreign minister – Amina Mohamed – 2013
Lesotho
- Monarch (regent) – Queen 'Mamohato – 1970
- Speaker of the National Assembly – Ntlhoi Motsamai – 1999
Liberia
- Foreign minister – Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper – 1994
- Chairwoman of the Council of State (head of state) – Ruth Perry – 1997
- Mayor of Monrovia – Ophelia Hoff Saytumah – 2001
- President pro tempore of the Liberian Senate – Grace B. Minor – 2002
- President – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – 2006 ((Chief Justice)) Musu Scott-1998-2003
Libya
- Minister of Health – Fatima Hamroush – 2011
Madagascar
- Foreign minister – Lila Ratsifandrihamanana – 1998
- Defence minister – Cécile Manorohanta – 2007
- Prime Minister (acting) – Cécile Manorohanta – 2009
Malawi
- Foreign minister – Lilian Patel – 2000
- Interior minister – Anna Kachikho – 2005
- Vice President – Joyce Banda – 2009
- President – Joyce Banda – 2012[3]
Mali
- Foreign minister – Sy Kadiatou Sow – 1994
- Prime minister – Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé – 2011
Mauritania
- Government minister – Aïssata Kane – 1975
- Foreign minister – Naha Mint Mouknass – 2009
- Mayor of Nouakchott – Maty Mint Hamady – 2014
Mauritius
- Minister of Youth and Sports – Marie Claude Arouff-Parfait – 1995
- Minister of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare – Indira Thacoor Sidaya – 1995
- Minister of Social Security, National Solidarity and Reform Institutions – Sheila Bappoo – 2005
- Parliamentary Private Secretary – Kalyanee Bedwantee Juggoo – 2010
- President (acting) – Monique Ohsan Bellepeau – 2012
- Minister of Education and human Resources – Leela Devi Dookhun Luchoomun – 2014
- President – Ameenah Gurib-Fakim – 2015
Morocco
- Secretary of State for Literacy and non-formal Education – Najima Rhozali – 2002
- Mayor – Asma Chaabi, (Essaouira) – 2003
- Minister of Energy and Mines – Amina Benkhadra – 2007
- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs – Latifa Akherbach – 2007
- Secretary of State for Education – Latifa Labida – 2007
- Minister of Sports – Nawal El Moutawakel – 2007
- Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family, and Social Development – Nouzha Skalli – 2007
- Minister of Culture – Touriya Jabrane – 2007
- Minister of Health – Yasmina Baddou – 2007
- Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development – Bassima Hakkaoui – 2012
- Ministry of Craft and Social Economy – Fatema Marouane – 2013
Mozambique
- Prime Minister – Luisa Diogo – 2004
- Foreign minister – Alcinda Abreu – 2005
Namibia
- Interior minister – Rosalia Nghidinwa – 2005
- Foreign Minister – Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah – 2013
- Prime Minister – Saara Kuugongelwa – 2015
- Deputy Prime Minister – Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah – 2015
Niger
- Foreign minister – Aïchatou Mindaoudou – 1999
Nigeria
- Finance Minister – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – 2003
- Foreign Minister – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala- 2006
Anambra State
- Governor of Anambra State (South East Nigeria) – Virginia Etiaba – 2006
Rivers State
- Commissioner of Works – Felicity Okpete Ovai – 2003
- Deputy Governor of Rivers State (Southern Nigeria) – Ipalibo Banigo – 2015
Rwanda
- Prime Minister – Agathe Uwilingiyimana – 1993
- Minister of Foreign Affairs – Rosemary Museminali – 2008
- President of the Chamber of Deputies of Rwanda – Rose Mukantabana – 2008 [4]
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Governor – Lisa Phillips – 2016
São Tomé and Príncipe
- Foreign minister – Maria do Nascimento da Graça Amorim – 1978
- Prime Minister – Maria das Neves – 2002
Senegal
- Prime Minister – Mame Madior Boye – 2001
Seychelles
- Foreign minister – Danielle de St. Jorre – 1989
Sierra Leone
- Ella Koblo Gulama (1957) The first woman to be elected to Sierra Leone's House of Representatives as Paramount Chief Member for Moyamba District. In 1962 she was re-elected and Prime Minister Milton Margai made her a Cabinet Minister
- Foreign minister – Shirley Gbujama – 1996
Somalia
- Foreign minister – Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan – 2012
- Deputy prime minister – Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan – 2012
Somaliland
- Foreign minister – Edna Adan Ismail – 2003
South Africa
Union
- Leader of a Political Party – Margaret Ballinger, President of the Liberal Party of South Africa – 1953
- Mayor of Cape Town – Joyce Newton Thompson – 1959
Republic
- Government minister – Rina Venter – 1989
- Health minister – Rina Venter – 1989
- Foreign minister – Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma – 1999
- Deputy President – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka – 2005
- Leader of a Major Party – Helen Zille – 2007
- Premier of Western Cape – Lynne Brown – 2008
Swaziland
- Monarch (regent) – Queen Dzeliwe – 1982
Tanzania
- Foreign minister – Asha-Rose Migiro – 2006
Tunisia
- First Minister of Women's Affairs – Fethia Mzali – 1983
- First Minister of Public Health – Souad Yaacoubi – 1984
- First Minister of the Environment – Faïza Kefi – 1999
- First Minister of Vocational Training – Faïza Kefi – 2001
- First Minister of Employment – Neziha Zarrouk – 2001
- First Female Leader of a Political Party – Maya Jribi – 2006
- First Minister of Culture – Moufida Tlatli – 2011
- First, First Vice-President of the Legislative assambly (Constituent Assembly of Tunisia) – Meherzia Labidi Maïza – 2011[5]
- First Second Vice-Presidente of Legislative assambly (Assembly of the Representatives of the People) – Faouzia Ben Fodha – 2014
- First Minister of Commerce – Nejla Moalla – 2014
- First Minister of Tourism – Amel Karboul – 2014
Uganda
- Foreign minister – Elizabeth Bagaya – 1974
- Vice President – Specioza Kazibwe – 1994
Zambia
- Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs – Inonge Wina – 2011
- Minister of Gender and Child Development – Inonge Wina – 2012
- Vice President – Inonge Wina – 2015
Zimbabwe
- Vice President – Joyce Mujuru – 2006
- Deputy Prime Minister – Thokozani Khuphe – 2009
Footnotes and references
- ↑ Guide2Women Leaders
- ↑ "Women in the Executive Authority". Egypt State Information Service. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
- ↑ McGroarty, Patrick (8/4/21012). "Malawi Swears In Banda as President". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8/4/2012. Check date values in:
|access-date=, |date=(help) - ↑ IPU PARLINE database: Rwanda Chambre des Députés (Chamber of Deputies)
- ↑ Mehdi Hasan talks to Tunisian politician Mehrezia Labidi on gender, democracy and the Arab Spring, Mehdi Hasan, 18 April 2012, New Statesman, Retrieved 8 December 2015
See also
- List of women heads of state
- List of women heads of government
- List of the first LGBT holders of political offices
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