boss divas in East Africa

Zari Hassan, from Uganda, whose twitter handle is @Zarithebosslady, is a businesswoman and a musician. She is the CEO of Brooklyn City College, a college in South Africa. The college has got 8 Different campuses, that is, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Rusternburg, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Vereenining, Durban & East London.

She owns a convertible Mercedes Benz, a Convertible BMW, Jaguar and a Chrystler. She is married with two kids. They have a house in Munyonyo, a boutique in South Africa and Uganda.

 

In Tanzania, we have Jackie Clifford, whose twitter handle is @diva_bosslady. She is a Tanzanian model who has appeared in several music videos including ‘She Got a Gwan’ by Mangwea and ‘Nataka Kulewa’ by Diamond.

In Kenya, we have Huddah Munroe, whose twitter handle is @huddahmonroe. They refer her as Kenya’s Kim Kardashian. Her real names are Alhuddah Njoroge and rumours have it that she will be representing Kenya this year in the Big Brother Africa 2013.

Huddah owns a cloths shop in Westlands, has a Mercedes Benz C200 and owns several houses in Nairobi. She also appears at events for pay. She dropped from a Computer Programming course. 

Which makes me think: these ladies have made it (or are still making it) and they are fiercely proving a point of their sheer will and strength. I was once told that if one is a lady then she has to hang near rich men so that she can make it. First, let me be quick to say that these ladies are not exactly your role models ( they are not the prototype of your kind of woman or wife or even morality, if there is a clear definition of it anyway). However, they help debunk myths that it is a male-dominated society. How many men  who are nowhere close to their status envy their position?