What I am reading this Weekend: All About African Women

• Water is still a luxurious commodity in many parts of Africa due to the scarcity of clean and portable water. Find out how Saran Kaba Jones, a Liberian, came back home after fleeing at age 8, to make a difference with water.
• In Nigeria, we are constantly in a battle to get electricity supply to be constant. Yet, we are still luckier than most other African countries. With the dangers of powering up with candles and kerosene lamp apparent, some women in Uganda are harnessing the power of the sun to create clean energy and small businesses. (click here).
• Just for a little kick in the backside to get going on your big idea, the 20 youngest powerful women in Africa in 2012, according to Forbes.
• Bethlehem Tilahun, founder of SoleRebels, is giving the international media another story to write on Africa. The world can now focus on how women are driving economic growth in Africa by creating viable businesses.