Woman Crush: Melanie Hawken

Posted by Mary Bosibori on February 08, 2017

The Founder of Lionesses of Africa, Melanie Hawken, is on a mission to get women to do it for other women by building a powerful community of elegant entrepreneurs. Lionesses of Africa is a new online community, passionate about women’s entrepreneurship in Africa, and raising the profile of women entrepreneurs and their businesses across the African continent. LoA is one of Africa’s digital platforms for women entrepreneurs. With a rapidly growing audience of 100,000+ women, the organization provides access to information, community resources, and networking events.

LoA aims to build an elegant online community that promotes, celebrates and supports the growth of women entrepreneurship on the African continent. Last year, we were thrilled to have been able to attend the Lionesses of Africa annual conference in South Africa. The organization was inspired by the realization that, just as for lionesses in the prides that live and hunt on the plains of Africa, life is tough for women entrepreneurs in this part of the world.

Each day, just as in the prides, these women entrepreneurs battle for recognition, they fight for their futures, they look to gain a share of voice above the noise, and they aim to do all this whilst maintaining personal and business relationships, raising families and creating homes. Lionesses of Africa aims to recognize all those elegant women entrepreneurs in Africa who are an inspiration to us all, those who have made it to the top of their fields and who are shaking up their industries and business sectors.