These scenes reveal a creative economy already producing identity, income, and influence. Camélia Cherkaoui, a Moroccan-French fellow placed in Senegal, captures its human force: “Across West Africa, creativity has become both a mirror and a lifeline.” Across the reflections of five African Young Women Leaders fellows, culture emerges as productive infrastructure: a store of knowledge, a field of work and a source of power through which African societies imagine and organize their futures.

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