Last week, Google changed its homepage logo in the United States, the UK, Ghana, Sweden, Australia and several other countries in honour of Esther Afua Ocloo, an inspiring African entrepreneur renowned for her work in empowering the women of Ghana.
She was the founder of Nkulenu Industries, a business she started with less than a dollar and grew into a global inspiration.
In one of her speeches, she said: “women must know that the strongest power in the world is economic power, and you cannot go and be begging to your husband for every little thing.”
In 1990, she became the first woman to receive the Africa Prize for Leadership.
Ester Afua Acloo died in 2002, and April 18 would have been her 98th birthday.
Among her many accomplishments, she proposed alternative solutions to the problems of hunger, poverty and the distribution of wealth – championing the development of an indigenous economy based on agriculture.
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