AFRICAN FIRST LADIES

First Lady Toure Lobbo Traore Mali

First Lady Chantal Biya Cameroon

First Lady Salma Kikwete Tanzania



First Lady Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba Gabon

First Lady Lucy Kibaki Kenya

First Lady Jeannette Kagame Rwanda

First Lady Suzanne Mubarak Egypt

First Lady Janet Museveni Uganda

First Lady Vivian Wade Senegal

First Lady Grace Marufu Mugabe Zimbabwe, 40 years President Mugabe junior and with whom he already had two children before his first wife death Sally Hayfron, in a tribal ceremony. Abandoning his previous claim of a Christian background, Mugabe justified the marriage under a traditional African law which allows him to take a junior wife.Grace Marufu Mugabe has three children: Bona, Robert Peter Jr. and Bellarmine Chatunga. As first lady, she has been the subject of much criticism for her lifestyle. Asked how she justified travelling to Europe to spend thousands on Ferragamo shoes while her people starved, she replied simply: "I have very narrow feet, so I wear only Ferragamo."

First Lady Zineb Jammeh Gambia

First Lady Zanele Mbeki South Africa

First Lady Marie Olive Kabila Democratic Republic of Congo

First Lady Dos Santos Angola

First Lady Chantal Compaoré Burkina Faso


First Lady Adelcia Pires Cape Verde

First Lady Simone Ehiver Gbagbo Cote d'Ivoire

First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa Zambia with First Lady of Ivory Coast Gbagbo