Arise Africa Magazine presents a special edition celebrating women, leadership, enterprise and the courage to build a greater Africa. Africa is rising, and behind that rise are women who are building businesses, leading organisations, challenging expectations, creating opportunities and redefining what is possible. ELEVATE, Special Edition Issue 85 of Arise Africa Magazine, brings together powerful stories from Kenya, South Africa and Zambia, celebrating African women whose journeys reflect resilience, ambition, leadership, innovation and purpose. Arise Africa Magazine is a Pan African publication focused on leadership, entrepreneurship, personal development, innovation and the people shaping Africa’s future. ELEVATE reflects that vision through stories that encourage readers to think bigger, lead boldly and turn ideas into meaningful action.<\/p>\n
The edition opens with a powerful message: Africa does not need more spectators. It needs builders, architects and leaders who are prepared to create the future.<\/p>\n
THREE WOMEN. THREE JOURNEYS. ONE MESSAGE: ELEVATE.<\/strong><\/p>\n At the heart of this special edition are three compelling stories of women who have transformed experience, knowledge and personal conviction into platforms for enterprise and impact.<\/p>\n FROM TRAVEL CONSULTANT TO TRAILBLAZER<\/strong> Jessy M. Lengwe’s story demonstrates how professional experience can become the foundation for entrepreneurship. Her journey began within the travel industry, where she developed expertise in travel consultancy, customer relations, hospitality, communication and business development. Those experiences prepared her for a bigger chapter, giving her the knowledge and industry understanding to eventually build something of her own.<\/p>\n In 2015, Jessy founded ARC Save Travel, Tours & Car Hire Limited. The decision followed years of experience and a growing conviction that it was time to pursue her own vision. When she resigned from her former employer, she was offered shares in the business, but her mind was already set on entrepreneurship. She chose to create a space where she could fully utilise her ideas and build according to her own vision.<\/p>\n Her entrepreneurial journey has since expanded beyond travel into branding, corporate services and community impact. Recognition for her work has followed, while the establishment of JML Global Ventures demonstrates her ability to apply existing skills and relationships to new areas of enterprise.<\/p>\n Jessy’s story is ultimately about the courage to recognise when experience has prepared you for a new chapter. It is a reminder that the career you build today can become the foundation for the enterprise you create tomorrow.<\/p>\n FROM THE GOOD GIRL CAGE TO A LIFE OF PURPOSE<\/strong> Sthe Magatsheni’s journey is a story of reinvention, purpose and personal freedom. After 18 years in the corporate world and a career in Human Resources and leadership, she moved into entrepreneurship, community development, authorship and women’s empowerment. Her transition reflects a desire to build a life shaped not only by professional achievement, but also by personal purpose.<\/p>\n Her book, The Good Girl Cage, examines the expectations placed on women to be agreeable, accommodating, sacrificial and acceptable to others. Drawing from experiences including relationships, motherhood, faith, entrepreneurship and personal reinvention, Sthe explores how easily women can lose sight of themselves while trying to become everything everyone else expects them to be.<\/p>\n That conversation continues through the Soft Life Circle, where she encourages women to embrace a more intentional understanding of ambition, self care, femininity, boundaries, healing, faith and purpose. Her philosophy challenges the idea that women must continually sacrifice themselves to prove their worth.<\/p>\n Her story offers a powerful message to women navigating their own seasons of change: reinvention is not about erasing the past. It is about using what you have learned to build a life that is more aligned with who you are becoming.<\/p>\n FROM NUMBERS TO NATIONS<\/strong> For CPA Fridah Jebowen Keitany, finance is more than numbers. Behind every balance sheet is a business, a family, a livelihood and an opportunity to create change.<\/p>\n With more than 15 years of experience in finance, strategic management, entrepreneurship and business advisory, the Kenyan entrepreneur has built her professional philosophy around three words: People. Planet. Profit. Her approach demonstrates that businesses can pursue financial performance while contributing meaningfully to society and the environment.<\/p>\n Through NB Consultancy Ltd, Fridah supports startups, SMEs, social enterprises and organisations with financial management, strategic planning, governance, sustainability and capacity building. Her focus goes beyond revenue generation. She helps entrepreneurs develop the systems, discipline and strategic clarity needed to build organisations that can survive and create lasting value.<\/p>\n Her work also extends into mentorship and financial literacy, helping entrepreneurs strengthen their businesses while encouraging families and individuals to make more intentional financial decisions. She sees thriving enterprises as potential engines for employment, community development and economic transformation.<\/p>\n Fridah’s story presents a compelling vision for African enterprise, one in which profitability and purpose are not competing ideas, but complementary forces capable of creating sustainable impact.<\/p>\n MORE THAN A MAGAZINE<\/strong><\/p>\n ELEVATE is not simply another magazine issue. It is an editorial statement about African women, leadership, enterprise, personal growth and the courage to build.<\/p>\n Across the edition, readers will encounter reflections on leadership, entrepreneurship, financial growth, personal development and Africa’s emerging Elevation Economy, an Africa increasingly defined by what its people create rather than what the continent is perceived to lack.<\/p>\n The edition also challenges readers to confront their own Elevation Gap, the space between where they are and where they have the potential to be. It explores the importance of growth, lifelong learning, action, discipline and the willingness to move beyond comfort.<\/p>\n From leadership lessons and personal growth to financial discipline and entrepreneurial thinking, ELEVATE is designed to do more than inspire. It challenges readers to think, act and build.<\/p>\n READ THE FULL ISSUE<\/strong><\/p>\n The complete ELEVATE Special Edition, Issue 85 of Arise Africa Magazine, is available to readers in Africa and around the world through major digital reading platforms.<\/p>\n Read the full magazine on:<\/p>\n ZINIO<\/strong><\/p>\n Access the complete digital edition through ZINIO.<\/p>\n MAGZTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Read ELEVATE and explore Arise Africa Magazine through Magzter.<\/p>\n Discover the full edition through PressReader and access Arise Africa Magazine alongside publications from around the world.<\/p>\n ELEVATE. READ. THINK. BUILD.<\/strong><\/p>\n Discover the women. 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\nHow Jessy M. Lengwe turned industry experience into enterprise, recognition and impact<\/p>\n
\nHow Sthe Magatsheni is helping women redefine success, identity and power<\/p>\n
\nHow CPA Fridah Jebowen Keitany is building Africa through purpose driven enterprise<\/p>\n
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