Tererai Trent: Zimbabwean scholar named one of the most inspiring women in the world

- Tererai Trent, a Zimbabwean academic, has been honoured with a life-size statue in the US for her contribution to women empowerment

- Ophrah Winfrey, Cate Blanchett, and Nicole Kidman were among those who were celebrated for their works in gender capacity building

- Trent came from a very humble background and had to self-teach herself before she emigrated to the US in 1998

Tererai Trent, a Zimbabwean scholar, has been honoured alongside popular medial personality, Oprah Winfrey, Hollywood celebrities like Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Pink, for their positive contributions towards gender equality.

Trent was celebrated with a life-size statue among several others which were inaugurated by Statues for Equality in the United States to commemorate Women’s Equality Day on Monday, August 26, CNN reports.

The scholar made the announcement via her twitter account, saying she was deeply honoured by the recognition.

She tweeted:

It should be noted that Trent was out of school for the most part of her childhood because of her poor background and being a female.

She, however, taught herself how to read and write while she lived with her parents in rural part of Zimbabwe.

Trent went to the US in 1998 after she met with an American non-profit organisation that visited her village. That encounter made her achieve all her education dreams of getting a masters and a doctorate.

Her suffering did not stop when she got the US as she had to fight instances of domestic abuse while pursuing her academic career and championing the education and empowerment of her people through education.

In 2011, her story caught the attention of Winfrey who donated $1.5 million to Trent’s cause of rebuilding her elementary school in Zimbabwe.

The statues were the idea of Gallie and Marc Schatter, who were both famous artists who are pushing for the representation of gender in public arts.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian architect and environmental rights activist, author and poet, got an honorary doctoral degree from the University of York, United Kingdom.

The celebrated Nigerian was one of the 16 global world-shakers like Irwin Jacob, Ronald Kaplan of Stanford University, Economist Dani Rodrik and Rong Zhang, the president of Xiamen University, China.

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