The African Girls Can Code Initiative, a four-year programme aimed at teens and young women interested in tech, seeks to address Africa's gender gap in the digital industry and prepare women for the fourth industrial revolution.

Nigerian couples are cautiously turning to surrogacy to ease the woe of fertility. But many find the path is beset with problems, from stigma to a fog of legal uncertainty.

Listed by ELLE Magazine as one of “12 women changing the world”, Minna Salami, a Nigerian-Finnish author, blogger and commentator, discusses the importance of feminist civil society groups and why she’s impatient with the idea of empowering women simply for economic reasons.