“Women are powerful, more than any creature on Earth,” said Agnes Taile, a Cameroonian journalist turned Central Florida-based African fashion designer.
She would know. She was the 2009 recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism award before she immigrated to the United States a decade ago, trading in pen and paper for fabric and scissors.
Taile earned the accolade for her reporting on political corruption, human rights issues and gender inequality in Cameroon, as well as her February 2008 coverage of the escalating conflict in a war-torn Chad. “It was exciting,” said Taile, of reporting in the field, at times amidst the chaos of raining bullets, burning buildings and an exodus of refugees. “You want to