Africa women are doing big things and this time we are honored to get a second female president from Gabon. It is my honor to introduce Rose Francine Rogombe, speaker of Gabon's senate, as the the country's first woman president for a transitional period. She assumes the presidency following the death of Omar Bongo Ondimba, who ruled the oil-rich equatorial African country for 41 years.
Rogombe was born in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon) circa 1942. After studying in France, she worked as a magistrate in Gabon. She also served in the government as Secretary of State for the Advancement of Women and Human RightsRights during the 1980s. In 2007, she received a degree in theology.
Rogombe will be the second female to attain to this type position following Ellen Johnson Sirleaf president of Liberia the first elected African female president in 2005.
Congratulations Rogombe, we wish you well and hope that you will do better than the past president even your time is for just for a transitional period (She is constitutionally ineligible from standing in the presidential poll, due to be held between 30 and 45 days). Congratulations on breaking barriers and being a role model to all the Gabonese girls and women and African girls and women out there. YES WE CAN DO IT!
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