SYLVIA BLYDEN (Sierra Leona)

Journalist.

2013-2015: personal assistant to the President of the country.

2016-2017: former minister of social welfare, gender and children’s affairs.

Known as the only female news editor in her country (in her own publishing house).

Known as a master female political figure in Sierra Leone.

Women’s and children’s rights activist.

1995: Elected to represent young women at the United Nations Women’s Confab in Beijing.