Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia’s President-elect, became the second woman in the history modern Africa to win a presidential election by universal adult suffrage, walking in the footsteps of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Johnson, who led Liberia from 2006 to 2018.
In practice, though, Nandi-Ndaitwah will be the fourth woman president on the continent, after Tanzania’s Suluhu Samia and Sahle-Work Zewde, who was Ethiopia’s president from October 2018 to October 2024.
