Creative Arts & Media
Creative Arts & Media Circle
Directors, designers, writers, and the women shaping our visual culture.
24 members
Networks · Mentors · Events
Built by women.
Built by women.
For our rise.
A career-and-community home for African women across the continent and the diaspora — from Lagos to London, Nairobi to New York. Join a network. Find a mentor. Show up for the next workshop.
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Networks
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Listed mentors
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Upcoming events
Featured networks
Communities where members show up for each other every week.
Finance & Investment
Finance, Investing & Wealth
Operators, investors, and the women writing the cheques.
22 members
Tech Leadership
African Women in Tech Leadership
From IC to Director and beyond — building each other into the senior seats.
21 members
Healthcare & Wellness
Women's Healthcare & Wellness Collective
Clinicians, public-health practitioners, and wellness builders.
19 members
Browse by category
Featured mentors
Women a step or three ahead, sharing what they've learned.
Healthcare & Wellness
Featured
Loretta Ross
Associate Professor, Smith College; reproductive justice founder · Northampton
Northampton, MA, USA
Social Entrepreneurship
Featured
Grace Mwangi
Founder & CEO, Maziwa Maternal Health · Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya
Academia & Research
Featured
Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw
Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights, UCLA; co-founder, AAPF · Los Angeles
Los Angeles & New York, USA
Social Entrepreneurship
Featured
Tarana Burke
Founder of the me too. Movement; survivor advocate · New York
New York, USA
Upcoming events
Workshops, panels, and retreats — virtual and in person.
Jun
6
Virtual
Postpartum Return-to-Work Circle (Spring Cohort)
Aminata Ndiaye · 90 min
Jun
14
Hybrid
Board Readiness Intensive: Your First NED Seat
Fatou Diallo + Dr. Naledi Khumalo · 240 min
Jun
21
Virtual
Black Maternal Mental Health Week — Online Gathering
Dr. Tariro Moyo + invited clinicians · 120 min
Why africanwo.men
Visibility for African women in finance, tech, healthcare, the creative arts, academia, social entrepreneurship, motherhood, faith, fitness and mental health has historically been scattered across a dozen newsletters, closed Slack workspaces, and conferences you have to fly across the continent to attend. The result: real practitioners stay isolated from each other, and the next generation can't see the road that's already been walked.
This site gathers career-focused networks in one place, lists mentors with bookable 1:1 sessions, and publishes a real events calendar covering workshops, panels and retreats. Member counts on each network reflect actual people who have signed up — not aspirational numbers. Mentor session totals reflect sessions that have actually closed. We grow slowly and on-purpose. If a category is empty today, the listing will say so plainly.
The reading list curates Black women's leadership writing across two generations — bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tsitsi Dangarembga and others — with affiliate links that fund the site's hosting. Everything else is free to use without an account.