{"id":5515,"date":"2025-07-24T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:21:31","slug":"africas-womens-day-virtual-event-engages-innovators-in-gaming-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/africas-womens-day-virtual-event-engages-innovators-in-gaming-and-tech","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s Women’s Day virtual event engages innovators in gaming and tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From gaming to igaming and beyond, the 2025 Africa’s Women\u2019s Day Awareness celebration calls on women across industries to connect, lead and celebrate their digital impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Kenya.- As Africa\u2019s digital economy<\/strong> accelerates, women from all sectors across the continent are invited to join the Africa’s Women\u2019s Day (AWD)<\/strong> virtual celebration that honours their achievements and contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the event welcomes women from every industry, it especially hopes to highlight and include those making strides in gaming, igaming, digital entertainment<\/strong> and related fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now in its fifth year and taking place on July 31, the AWD celebration adopts the theme \u201cRooted in Greatness: Celebrating Women of African Descent<\/strong>\u201d. The entire event is online, using Zoom and StreamYard<\/strong>, giving women who are leading Africa\u2019s digital industries a chance to share their experiences and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme recognises women across Africa, including those active in the gaming and tech sectors<\/strong>. The AWD initiative was started by Joy Zenz<\/strong>, who is from Kenya, alongside Nigerian co-founder Abigail Egbunine. Well-known life coach, Tera Carissa Hodges, will be a keynote speaker, sharing her experience helping Africans both in Africa and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa\u2019s gaming industry is growing fast, almost six times quicker than the rest of the world, making this event significant. It will have keynote speakers and panel talks about identity, innovation and new digital ideas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Africa’s Women\u2019s Day celebrates African women across all sectors, including gaming and tech.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating African women\u2019s impact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The free online event<\/strong> will spotlight the work of women helping to shape Africa\u2019s digital future<\/strong>, while also calling for females in the continent\u2019s growing digital sectors to take part in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWD organisers said the event is a way to honour the diversity of African women\u2019s experiences and highlight their role in shaping a more inclusive digital future<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHistory has left emotional, physical and generational gaps. Not everyone feels personally connected to Africa, which can sometimes feel more symbolic than tangible. We do not seek to label, but rather to unite, celebrating the greatness that runs through the global African community<\/strong>,\u201d said the AWD, on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa’s Women\u2019s Day is held every year on the same date to commemorate the establishment of the Pan African Women\u2019s Organisation (PAWO) in 1962, the continent\u2019s first women\u2019s collective dedicated to empowerment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> TigonBet launches in Kenya, leading the gamified mobile betting charge<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From gaming to igaming and beyond, the 2025 Africa’s Women\u2019s Day Awareness celebration calls on women across industries to connect, lead and celebrate their digital impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2809,"featured_media":5521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The 2025 Africa\u2019s Women\u2019s Day (AWD) virtual celebration underscores the escalating influence of women within Africa's burgeoning digital economy, with a pronounced emphasis on the iGaming and broader tech sectors. This fifth annual event, themed \"Rooted in Greatness,\" aims to strategically highlight and empower female leadership, fostering an inclusive digital future across the continent amidst the region's rapid industry expansion.","focusai_entities":"Joy Zenz, Abigail Egbunine, Tera Carissa Hodges, Pan African Women\u2019s Organisation (PAWO)","focusai_location":"Kenya, Africa, Nigeria","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.75), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on African iGaming?","query":"How might increased female leadership and participation, as celebrated by AWD, specifically influence the innovation and regulatory landscape within Africa's iGaming verticals?"},{"label":"Talent Pipeline Implications?","query":"What are the projected long-term impacts of initiatives like Africa's Women's Day on the talent pipeline and workforce diversity for iGaming operators and B2B suppliers targeting the African market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[60013,60021],"tags":[60231,72,60406],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-igaming-news","tag-digital-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-new-digital-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}