Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Sarah Mawerere

#AWiM21 Pitch Zone received pitches from incredible media women all over the continent. It is our pleasure to profile Sarah Mawerere, a Ugandan Journalist who won the ‘Science and technology – Enhancing outer space science studies, activities and facilities in Africa’  Category. Read more about Sarah below Tell us/the readers about yourself, your education, job, interests […]

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 […]

Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Elizabeth Angira

#AWiM21 Pitch Zone received pitches from incredible media women all over the continent. It is our pleasure to profile Elizabeth Angira, from  Kenya, who won the ‘Africa’s digital transformation strategy – How the digital economy can help accelerate the achievement of the Africa We Want‘  Category. Read more about Elizabeth below Tell us/the readers about yourself, […]

Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Nitasha Ramparsad

AWiM21 Conference produced five winners across five-pitch categories. We present Professor Nitasha Ramparsad Tell us/the readers about yourself, your education, job, interests and what you do for fun I am the founding director of JD Legacy Projects and has over 15 years of experience in Executive and Leadership training. I currently hold a PhD in […]

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.