This week on Herstory, learn about Quartey-Papafio, one of Ghana's leading cable manufacturer, Grace Nzivo, a foremost Kenyan engineer, and Sohair Mansour, Egypt's famous matchmaker.

What is the link between patriotism and economic development? How does patriotism or the lack of it impact a country's development in general?

This week on Herstory, learn about women money changers in Djibouti and women brewers in Kenya and South Africa.

This week on Herstory, Standard Chartered Bank awards five female owned businesses $9,000 in Kenya, BBC report identifies a prevalence of digital gender gap in Africa, and Mali's Seynabou Dieng wins at the 2021 Cartier Women’s Initiative.

This week on Herstory, Kenya's first female Chief Justice assumes office, and women in rural Namibia earn a living from biodiversity-friendly trade.

This week on Herstory, Vogue celebrates Nigeria's leading female tech entrepreneurs, Girlcode Africa partners with Amazon to train unemployed women in South Africa, and Crystal Partners launches in South Africa.

This week on Herstory, Vodafone is connecting pregnant women with emergency healthcare in Africa, Libya’s first female foreign minister is being pressed to quit, and a Ugandan juice producer gets a $10 million grant.

Solape Akinpelu empowers Nigerian women to adopt high-level financial services and Catherine Nanziri is the first Ugandan woman boxer to make it to the Olympics.

This week on Herstory, Unicef and Microsoft collaborate over issues of domestic violence in Ghana and over 200 female cocoa farmers benefit from adult literacy programme in West Africa.

This week on Herstory, more than 90 percent of women in Mali, Niger and Senegal are deprived of their bodily autonomy, Nigeria’s Nnenna Nwakanma is improving women’s access to the internet, and a women’s rights group takes Mali to court.