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Pioneer African Women in Law

This is a dynamic digital archive. The information contained in these bibliographic entries has been reviewed for accuracy with available data and information. The entries will be updated if new information or additional historical facts become available to the authors and editors. To keep the archive robust and accurate, we welcome additional sources of information which can be emailed to us at info@africanwil.org

Amina Mousso Ouédraogo Traoré

First Woman Vice President of the Supreme Court

BURKINA FASO

Effie Owuor

First Woman Judge (Kenya)

KENYA

Julia Sebutinde

First African Woman Judge, International Court of Justice (Uganda)

UGANDA

Vera Duarte

First Woman Judge (Cape Verde)

CAPE VERDE

Aloma Mariam Mukhtar

First Woman Chief Justice (Nigeria)

NIGERIA

Eusebia Munuo

First Woman Judge (Tanzania)

TANZANIA

Fatou Bensouda

First Woman Prosecutor, ICC (The Gambia)

THE GAMBIA

Sanji Monageng

Third woman Magistrate in Botswana, and the only woman Magistrate in the late 1980s

BOTSWANA

Patricia Kameri-Mbote, PhD

First Woman Law Professor (Kenya)

KENYA

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