Tererai Trent, a Zimbabwean-born women’s empowerment and humanitarian scholar, received a bronze statue for her role in promoting equality and empowerment for girls and women.

The US-based author has been named one of the world’s 10 most inspiring women ‘carved for equal rights’. Tererai Trent will have his life-size bronze statue erected at New York’s Rockefeller Center on August 26, 2019, to launch Statues for Equality, a project that aims to balance gender representation in public art.

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The statue will stand alongside other distinguished women who have received the same honor, including billionaire Oprah Winfrey, environmental activist Jane Goodall, actress Cate Blanchett, activist Janet Mock, actress Nicole Kidman, chemist Tracy Dyson, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas and author Cheryl Strayed.

Coming from a society where women were not allowed to own property, at the age of 18 she was already married with children. However, she was teaching herself to read and write before ending up in the United States about 21 years ago to seek an education there.

The US-based academic, who believes her past has led her to where she is now, is the founder of Tererai Trent International, which advocates quality education for all children, regardless of gender or race. socio-economic context.

In her village, despite not having the right environment to succeed, Trent had a dream. She explains that she could represent herself to go to America, in a plane.

She said: ‘I had never been on a plane before, but I saw myself carrying a bag around campus and attending classes. I had a mental image as if I was there. I could see myself graduating and getting a doctorate.”

She adds that “these images were so vivid to me.”

Trent would write down his dreams, put the paper in a box and bury it.

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