Alimatu Dimonekene MBE
Alimatu Dimonekene, a Public Voices Fellow on Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls through Equality Now and OpEd Project. Alimatu is a leading activist and advocate recently recognized with an MBE in the 2023 New Year’s Honours for my services to the prevention of violence against women and girls globally. Also highlighting her extensive work on the elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) worldwide.
Alimatu is also originally from Sierra Leone, grew up in Liberia and United Kingdom.
As an African feminist Alimatu once said this “Feminist leadership for me, it’s who I am, it’s what I self identify as and live through day to day. I’m a woman, a mother, an African – it’s everything that I am”
“Feminism is fluidity. It moves around. It goes into all the spaces it needs to go, it takes the best out of it, and it works within that mold. It encourages you to be whoever you want to be, no matter what your limitations are. You feel encouraged and enabled to be your own person”.
Alimatu Dimonekene
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.