African woman in business at TED conference

Fellow blogger Benin has been doing a great job with his African Women in Business series. Reading his series has inspired me to keep an eye out for African women who are keeping pace with the men in changing the world we live in. While looking at the schedule for the TED conference, which started on Wednesday, I noticed that one African woman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian Finance Minister, was scheduled to give a talk at the $4, 000 a head think-tank conference. Having already made an appearance at the World Economic Forum at Davos, she lead a session called “Open for Business” for the “artists and inventors who are plotting to save the world“. Ethan has been blogging from TED and gives us a run-down of Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s session. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala is also the mother of Uzodinma Iweala, author of the critically acclaimed novel Beasts of No Nation and one of Paper Magazine’s Beautiful People of 2006. I guess genius runs in the family.