Trailblazer into Government Zanana Akande: The First Black Woman Cabinet Minister Zanana Akande was elected to the Ontario legislature in September 1990 and became the first Black woman cabinet minister in Canada. In the interview, Sue talks to Zanana about her path to power, her accomplishments and her disappointments in office. It covers Zanana’s fascinating youth growing up in Toronto, her initiative to start the first journal by women of colour called Tiger Lily and her work to achieve the groundbreaking employment equity legislation in Ontario. with Zanana Akande interviewed by Sue Colley Transcript Resources Material From the Archive Letter re: Ontario’s Employment Equity LegislationEqual Pay Coalition of OntarioOWAC News Bulletin – Vol. 2, No. 1 – June 1991Tiger Lily: A Journal by Women of ColourCelebrate the Vision -20th Anniversary of the Kay Livingstone Award EventNational Congress of Black Women Brochure Material from the Web Lessons learned from the women’s movementZanana Akande honoured with YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction AwardToronto trailblazer Zanana Akande given Key to the CityLegislative Assembly of Ontario – Zanana Akande Thank you… This project has been made possible in part by Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program.
