Many said she was on a road to nowhere with her street protests and various efforts to resist the most brutal government clamp down on free expression in our time, but Jenni Williams - with the other Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) - has soldiered on regardless. She has been imprisoned, beaten, battered and suffered head lice in detention so many times she had to shave her head.
For the last five years, however, Williams has been an inspiration for peaceful campaigners throughout the world. Now her efforts have been recognised by becoming one of 10 recipients of the first International Women of Courage Awards. This is an annual award that has been established by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in honour of International Women’s Day.
The WOZA coordinator is the only African woman among this first group of women from different regions around the world to receive the award.
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