Yabome Gilpin-Jackson

The chapter brings to the fore the lived experience of Yabome Gilpin-Jackson in sharing the journey of setting up the We Will Lead Africa (WWLA) series. Yabome was inspired to start the We Will Lead Africa (WWLA) initiative after a call for submissions to the 3rd Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference in 2014. This call created dissonance for Yabome as it did not include the narratives of Africans in leadership. This chapter shares how Yabome disrupted the paper submissions, leading to more African leadership voices being read, seen, and heard.