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Uloma Ogba  (credit: Uloma Ogba) & Kanwal Ahmed (credit: Sarosh Pirwani)

18/11/2019 GMT

Female friendship

BBC World Service - The Conversation, Female friendship

How to make and how to keep good female friends

How to make and how to keep good female friends.

What's so important about friendships between women and how do they change over the course of our lives? Kim Chakanetsa talks to two women about making and keeping good friends. How do you maintain strong friendships when you're constantly on the move? 

Uloma Ogba is founder and CEO of Launch Africa, which offers career advice and mentoring to people wanting to work in international development. She works with the United Nations in Rwanda and has also co-founded the non-profit, Give Girls a Chance, which aims to increase access to quality education for girls across Nigeria. Given her busy, international lifestyle how does she keep the friends she has and make new ones when she travels?

Kanwal Ahmed is a Pakistani entrepreneur and founder of Soul Sisters Pakistan, an online community which sets out to create a space where Pakistani women feel comfortable to speak their minds. 'I saw thousands of women coming together online, not even knowing each other, but standing up for each other and being there for each other.' More recently Kanwal has also launched a digital talk show, Conversations with Kanwal, about everything from love and loss to cyber harassment.

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L: Uloma Ogba (credit: Uloma Ogba)  
R: Kanwal Ahmed (credit: Sarosh Pirwani)

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