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Forbes List of the Most Powerful Black Women in the World 2018

Forbes recently released the list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women who have made outstanding inputs in the world. The list comprises women who have broken grounds in different spheres of life including business, entertainment, politics, diplomacy and philanthropy. Out of the 100 women featured, 12 are black, up from 11 last year.

The latest entrant to the league of the world’s most powerful black women is Folorunsho Alakija, a Nigerian billionaire businesswoman who is a co-founder of Famfa Oil, a privately-held Nigerian exploration and production company that owns a lucrative stake in one of the country’s most prolific oil fields.

We have taken out and posted on this page, 12 most powerful black woman who by their tremendous efforts appeared on the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Let’s see these great icons!

Most Powerful Black Women in the World

1. Michelle Obama

First Lady, United States

Among the initiatives from her eight-year stint as First Lady is Let’s Move, a nationwide campaign to combat childhood obesity, which included revamping school lunches, and the Partnership for a Healthier America, which will remain in effect after the Obamas leave the White House. But perhaps her most lasting legacy is, by appearance at least, the smallest: the label attached to food packaging.

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2. Oprah Winfrey (Net Worth: $3 Billion)

Media Mogul, U.S.A (Actress)

Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, entertainer, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history. Oprah is one of the world’s most generous women, who has given millions to educational causes across the world and her home town. The laudable one among them is $100 million which she has spent on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.

3. Ursula Burns

Chair-CEO, Xerox

Burns was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009, and over the last 5 years, she has worked tirelessly towards transforming the company’s image as a manufacturer of printers to a full-fledged services business. Burns is the first African-American woman to lead an S&P 500 company. In 2015 she helped generate $18 billion in revenue, with adjusted earnings per share of 98 cents, all down slightly from a year earlier.

4. Beyonce Knowles

Musician, U.S.A.

Beyoncé Knowles is a multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning recording artist who’s acclaimed for her thrilling vocals, videos and live shows. Along with husband Jay Z and other musicians including Madonna, Beyonce owns a piece of streaming service Tidal. The streaming service received 33% increase when Sprint invested $200 million into it in early 2017. She is the only female artist to have all her studio albums debut at number 1 (Dangerously In Love, B’Day, I Am…Sasha Fierce, 4, Beyoncé). 

5. Rosalind Brewer

COO, Starbucks. CEO, Sam’s Club, Walmart Stores.

Brewer has helped bring the Sam’s Club to what is obtainable in recent times with services such as online ordering with groceries waiting in the parking lot two hours later.  The chairwomen Board of Trustees for Spelman College, Brewer joined Walmart in 2006 and became the CEO of Sam’s club (a subsidiary of Walmart stores) in 2012. This position made Rosalind the first woman and first African-American to head a Walmart subsidiary.

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6. Joyce Banda

Former President, Malawi

Banda is Malawi’s first female president (and second on the African continent) who assumed office in 2012. However, she failed to win a second term in office after loosing to Peter Mutharika in May general elections of the country. Banda is a core philanthropist and popular known for her Joyce Banda Foundation International which supports projects aimed at empowering market women and providing orphans with access to education.

7. Ertharin Cousin

Executive Director, World Food Programme, United Nations

Ertharin Cousin (60), served as the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest aid agency battling food insecurity and hunger from 2012 to 2017. As the head of the UN World Food Programme, she provides succor to millions of people in the world. Cousin is currently working with The Power of Nutrition, a UK-based charity that wants to end the cycle of undernutrition after her tenure at the WFP.

8. Helene Gayle

President-CEO, CARE

Gayle is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CARE USA, a leading humanitarian organization which actively fights poverty in 87 countries by responding to natural disasters, climate change and other causes of global poverty. Under Gayle’s leadership CARE total program activities budget is $529 million (from 2012) and will complete over 900 projects in 87 countries this year.

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9. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Former Minister of Finance, Nigeria

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala helped the Nigeria’s economy to grow an average of 6% (per annum) over three years when she was still on sit. Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman to be the finance minister and the foreign minister of the West African country with a GDP of $502 billion.

Others include;

10. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (President, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

11. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, Liberia

12. Folorunsho Alakija, CEO Famfa Oil, Nigeria

Who is(are) your favorite most powerful black women on the list? Feel free to comment and share this post with others.

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