Profile of Honorees
2021 Global Women’s Empowerment Award Honoree:
Her Excellency Fatima Jabbe Maada Bio
Her Excellency Fatima Jabbe Maada Bio is the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone. She is motivated by pan- Africanist ideals and she is a strong believer in women empowerment as key to sustainable development. A native of Sierra Leone, she pursued her passion for women empowerment as First Lady by staging a peaceful protest against gender-based violence. It was a historic march and for the first time in history, First Ladies from different African Countries came together in unity and joined the peaceful protest march on the streets of Freetown in December 2018. This was the beginning of her very powerful campaign themed “Hands Off Our Girls”. Her Excellency, started her education at the Ansarul Islamic School in Kono, where she did her primary education and part of her Secondary schooling. She later joined the Saint Joseph convent in Freetown (Capital City) for her GCSE studies. Sierra Leone’s illustrious first lady has garnered success through hard-work over the years in the entertainment industry in which she was an actress, Script Writer, executive producer and a multi award winning face of the Nollywood industry. Among her barrage of prominent features in cinema is the ‘Mirror Boy’, which she played the lead character and the movie ‘Battered’ which concept is based on Gender Based Violence and which was written and produced by her.
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