Tanzania’s president has said there were people who doubted she was qualified to lead when she first became head of state because she was a woman.
Some “don’t believe that women can be better presidents and we are here to show them,” Samia Suluhu Hassan told the BBC.
In March, the 61-year-old was sworn in after her predecessor died in office.
She is currently Africa’s only female political head of state. The Ethiopian presidency is a ceremonial role.
“Even some of my government workers dismissed me at first as just another woman, but they soon accepted my leadership,” Ms Samia said.
“But this is not just in Africa, even in America, [Hillary] Clinton reached a place where we thought she was going to be the president but she couldn’t,” she added.
Source: Fiilafmonline/BBC
