Senegalese Designer Adama Paris Counted Among The 10 Most Powerful African Women

Powerful women who made the list are “women of power in Africa who differ in politics, business, strategic thinking and fashion”. Most of them come from English-speaking countries in Africa with the exception of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angolan President and Adama Ndiaye Paris, who bears the flag of Senegal.

 
Adama “Paris” Ndiaye, 36 is a stylist Senegalese diplomat’s daughter who studied economics at Paris-Dauphine. 12 years back, she founded Dakar Fashion Week, and has been organising Black Fashion Week event in Paris, Bahia, Montreal Prague and Geneva since 2010.

It includes Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma – South Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Liberia, Louise Mushikiwabo – Rwanda, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Nigeria, Folorunsho Alakija – Nigeria, Bridgette Radebe – South Africa, Dambisa Moyo – Zambia and Ory Okolloh who’s the head of Google Africa.