This is a recommended article that tells the story of young Africans – especially females – destroying myths about what their gender can or cannot do. Patricia Mawuli-Porter’s story as West Africa’s only female flight instructor is truly inspiring!
In a 2018 Face2FaceAfrica report, Patricia Mawuli-Porter, West Africa’s only female flight instructor taught girls and young people in Ghana and in the United States how to build aircraft.
She was invited to the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin twice and on one occasion, she helped a young team of young Americans with no prior aircraft building experience to assemble a Zenith CH750 aircraft in a record one week.
Watch a video about her below:
https://youtu.be/klPXQqA2XoI
Click the link below to read more of her story – and also that of the teenage South Africans building an aircraft to fly across the continent!
Meet the 20 South African teenagers who are building an aircraft to fly them across Africa