THE RISE OF KENYAN WOMEN INTO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.

PRODUCER: FELIX ADERO

Duraton: 10 minutes, 5 seconds

Background Song: Mama Africa

Vox Pop: Alice Amani and Charles Ochieng’

Insert 1: Lillian Ngala – Managing HR DTB Bank/leadership and governance expert.

Insert 2: Beatrice Wasonga – Radio Programs Manager/gender equity mobilizer.

This is a feature story that focuses on the rise of women into different leadership positions such as

political, government administration, company heads, church leadership and much more. The feature

aims at advocating and rooting for gender equity as we encourage women to come out in large numbers

to seek for leadership positions in their various spaces and also encouraging the men to support and

provide an enabling environment for the growth of women.

In this feature that starts with a song Mama Africa by Suzanna Owiyo as an introduction piece that

encourages respect to the African women, also relays the views and opinions of different individuals on

women leadership and how they performed.

I interviewed an leadership and governance expert Lillian Ngala who largely talks on the various

obstacles that women face in their leadership journey, how to overcome them, what it takes to make a

leader, the data of women leaders in Kenya compared to other East African countries and much more.

My other source is Beatrice Wasonga a radio programs manager and also a grassroots mobiliser and

sensitizer on gender equity and equality. She comes in with vast knowledge and experience on the

cultural barrios that women till face on their way up and how to end and overcome them.

By the end of it all the feature achieves its goal of educating, sensitizing, encouraging and urging not

only women to rise up and claim leadership but also men and the general society to support this noble

course.