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Pioneer African Women in Law

PAWLP

RADICAL

Restoring and preserving the historical agency of the African Woman in Law 

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Shamila Batohi

Director Of Public Prosecutions, National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa

South Africa

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Her Lady Justice Tejan-Jalloh

First woman Chief Justice (Sierra Leone)

SIERRA LEONE

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Justice Gertrude Torkornoo

Supreme Court judge and the supervising judge of the Commercial Courts

Ghana

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Sanji Monageng

Third woman Magistrate in Botswana, and the only woman Magistrate in the late 1980s

BOTSWANA

Editor's Note

This is a dynamic digital archive. The information contained in these bibliographic entries has been reviewed for accuracy with available data and information. The entries will be updated if new information or additional historical facts become available to the authors and editors. To keep the archive robust and accurate, we welcome additional sources of information which can be emailed to us at info@africanwomeninlaw.com

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