Download Chapter 1 of Crowning Her With Power,
the book Africa's
women
leaders are reading.
Crowning Her With Power maps the distance between financial inclusion and financial ownership, and shows exactly what it takes to close it. Seven pillars. Real women. A continent's worth of evidence.
Hi, I’m Zimkhitha Gova
I am the Founder and Executive Chairperson of the Africa Women Financial Inclusion Initiative and Country Head of New Faces, New Voices South Africa, anchored by the Graça Machel Trust. For over twenty years, my work has sat at one intersection: the distance between women entering an economy and women owning within it.
Crowning Her With Power is the document of that work. Read the latest articles here.
Crowning Her With Power
Women are being included, we are told. In banking. In boardrooms. In policy conversations. The numbers are moving. The language is changing. And yet the question nobody answers is how many of those women own the institut...
From inclusion
to ownership.
- Name the barriers. Including the ones nobody talks about openly the Systemic Barrier Code that punishes women for how they live, not how they perform.
- Build a pathway, not just a plan. Seven pillars that move from the wealth gap through credit, leadership, digital enterprise, and community capital each one a tool, together a framework.
- Own something that lasts. Income fades. Assets compound. This book is about the difference between the two, and what it takes to cross it.