The Scholarship
The Scholars
Yunga Anwi
Cameroon & University of the Western Cape, 2020 Yunga is reading for her Honours in International Relations. She is a feminist and youth activist with a specific focus on girls’ education, agriculture, and sexual reproductive health and rights. She is the founder of Women's Corner: a community-based organization that focuses on creating awareness and supporting community structures and school systems on how to manage and provide adequate resources to the girl child during menstruation. Yunga also doubles as the founder and CEO of Agro-Venture, an enterprise that fights to eliminate youth unemployment and poverty. In 2017, Yunga was selected to participate in the highly-rated Young African Leadership Initiative fellowship in Accra, Ghana. Later in 2018, she won the prestigious Tony Elumelo Entrepreneurship Award, and in early 2019, she was selected for the ultimate African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative. Yunga holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Buea-Cameroon. She is driven by her commitment to women and youth empowerment.