In this book, Dr. Bettina Boohene-Andah, a physician, youth and gender advocate, catalogues five inspirational stories by five successful women from Ghana, The Gambia, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Benin. The narrations of Jeanette, Kodou, Kadi, Hansatu and Maryse are vivid, intriguing and unadulterated. Their serpentine journey through life has been filled with joy, pain, laughter, bitter lessons and tears—emotions which they capture so well in the book. Success is a journey fraught with many hurdles and the youth must read this from real mentors they can relate to. It is a “tell it as it is” piece of literature.