Women & Girls Empowerment
Survivor Leadership in African Communities: Why Healing and Leading Are the Same Movement
Why healing and leading are not two different movements — and what it looks like when survival refuses to stay quiet.
In most of the world, leadership is framed as something you acquire — a title, a credential, a seat at a table. But in the communities I come from, and in the work we do at Wounded Healers International, leadership looks different.
It looks like a woman who sat in a healing circle last year and now runs one. It looks like a teen mother who was told her future was over and went on to build something for other girls. It looks like survival that refuses to stay quiet.
March 12, 2026
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