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LIFESTYLE
Resetting Everything: The New
Face of Leadership
THE FORBES WOMAN AFRICA THE FORBES WOMAN AFRICA
SPORTS AWARD BUSINESSWOMAN AWARD
TATJANA JOANA GYAN CUDJOE
SCHOENMAKER, World CEO, Golden Empire
Record Holder and Legacy
Olympic Gold Medallist
Nana Adjoa Awo I
At the age of 20, the (known in business
breaststroke specialist circles as Joana
became the first South Gyan Cudjoe) is a
African woman in self-accomplished,
eight years to earn a successful
medal in the pool at entrepreneur. She is
WINNERS OF THE 2022 FORBES WOMAN AFRICA AWARDS the Commonwealth the founder and CEO
of Golden Empire
Games. After several
more awards, Legacy Ltd with
she shattered her ancestral descendants
African long-course from three royal
records over all three families. She started
breaststroke distances as a small-scale miner,
at the 2021 South working her way up
African Championships in Gqeberha. Three months later, in a male-dominated
at the Tokyo Olympic Games, she went on to secure two business. She strongly believes in linking mining to
of the South African team’s three medals and the squad’s the shared global commitment of the United Nations
only two medals in the pool. After breaking her own Sustainable Development Goals focusing on gender
African record in the heats, she grabbed the silver medal equality, decent work and economic growth.
in the 100m final, breaking the world record in the 200m
event to win gold. THE FORBES WOMAN AFRICA LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
THE FORBES WOMAN AFRICA DR PHUMZILE MLAMBO-
ENTERTAINER AWARD NGCUKA, Founder of
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO Umlambo Foundation,
Former Deputy President
Singer-songwriter, UNICEF
International Goodwill of South Africa and
Ambassador, Co-Founder Former Executive Director
UN Women
of the Batonga Foundation
Dr Mlambo-Ngcuka was
Four-time Grammy recently appointed by
Award winner, the General Assembly
Angélique Kidjo, is as chair of the World
one of the greatest Tourism Organisation
international musicians (UNWTO) Ethics
today, a creative force Committee, and is on
with 16 albums to her the board of Global
name. ‘Africa’s premier Citizen and Women
diva’ – according Deliver. She has
to Time magazine - been on the Gender
Angélique was also Commission of the
named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the International Olympics
World for 2021. Forbes Magazine ranked Angelique on Committee and was
its list of the Most Powerful Celebrities in Africa. She asked by Pope Francis and Mike Bloomberg to be a
was also the recent recipient of the prestigious 2015 jury on initiatives that recognise good work in service of
Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum, the 2016 humanity. She is affiliated with the Fund to End Violence
Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, Against Children and is a founder of the Umlambo
and the 2018 German Sustainability Award. Foundation, a school improvement organisation.
The free-to-attend FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit, which coincided with International
Women’s Day, featured a top line-up of female speakers engaging on topics from hybrid working conditions
to female-driven technology solutions.
If you missed the live event, see the highlights at https://leadingwomensummit.co.za/.
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