Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Cindy Sipula

#AWiM21 Pitch Zone received pitches from incredible media women all over the continent. It is our pleasure to profile Cindy Sipula, from  Zambia, who won Improving Africa’s Public Health Sector – Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic’  Category. Read more about Cindy below Tell us/the readers about yourself, your education, your work, your interests and what you […]

Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Sheila Ponnie

#AWiM21 Pitch Zone received pitches from incredible media women all over the continent. It is our pleasure to profile Sheila Ponnie, from  South Sudan, who won the ‘Women in trade: Financial inclusion as a tool to boost intra-African trade‘  Category. Read more about Sheila below Tell us/the readers about yourself, your education, your work, your interests […]

How to Get a Grant

Becoming a grantee of the 2017/18 International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Howard Buffet Fund for Women Journalists, was a rare opportunity for me which has boosted my career. I am passionate about reporting issues relating to women development in my community, and the grant gave me the opportunity to reach more women in their localities and […]

DR. YEMISI AKINBOBOLA

C.E.O & Co-founder, AWiM

Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is an award-winning journalist, academic, consultant and co-founder of African Women in Media (AWiM). AWiM’s vision is that one-day African women will have equal access to representation in media. Joint winner of the CNN African Journalist Award 2016 (Sports Reporting), Yemisi ran her news website IQ4News between 2010-14.
Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University, where she is a Senior Lecturer. She has published scholarly research on women’s rights, African feminism, and journalism and digital public spheres. She was Editorial Consultant for the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 commemorative book titled “She Stands for Peace: 20 Years, 20 Journeys”, and currently hosts the book’s podcast.
She speaks regularly on issues relating to gender and media. In 2021 she was recognized as one of 100 Most Influential African Women.