By Onuwa Lucky Joseph
The 2021 class of the annual WeForGood 100 Women ‘Creating a Better Africa’ was announced recently to sustained applause for those recognised. And as expected, some perennial heavyweights made the list who will make any list of accomplished women worldwide – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Amina Mohammed, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liya Kebede, and Mo Abudu being a few of such names.
This year’s list was made against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic which has wreaked havoc as it streaked its way across countries of the world. Women, in their different capacities as health care workers, caregivers, community organisers and innovators have tended to be directly in the path of the pandemic and so have found themselves carrying even more burden than the usual overload they are used to on behalf of the rest of humanity.