• Sophie Tall launched women’s health initiative Amanii in March 2026 to provide information, counseling and support to girls and women.
• Amanii uses WhatsApp, online communities, social-impact events and tele-advisory services staffed by midwives.
• Tall previously co-founded pan-African telemedicine platform La Ruche Health and serves as vice president of Africaines in Tech.

Based in Côte d’Ivoire, Sophie Tall has positioned technology at the center of female health services. She founded Amanii in March 2026 as an initiative dedicated to informing, listening to and supporting girls and women on issues related to their health.

Tall designed Amanii as a secure and supportive environment. The initiative relies on WhatsApp, one of the continent’s most widely used messaging applications, as its primary engagement tool.

The platform combines an online community, high-impact social events and a tele-advisory service. This ecosystem allows users to discuss personal concerns and ask questions about their bodies, menstrual cycles, motherhood and general well-being in a confidential setting.

In addition, qualified midwives provide reliable information and guidance through the platform.

Tall has built her career around innovation and women’s leadership. She currently serves as vice president of Africaines in Tech, an expertise network that brings together more than 700 women across Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon and Togo. The organization promotes inclusion and professional intermediation within the Francophone African technology sector.

Before launching Amanii, Tall co-founded La Ruche Health in 2023, a pan-African telemedicine platform. She served as the company’s development director until March 2026.

Tall supports her entrepreneurial activities with expertise in both engineering and management acquired in France. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Health Engineering and Management from the Institut Supérieur de la Santé et des Bioproduits d’Angers (ISSBA) in 2014. She later completed a master’s degree in Project Management and Health Product Commercialization at the University of Montpellier in 2016.

Tall began her professional career in 2012 as Quality Control Manager at EUROP COSMETICS. She joined Pierre Fabre Group in 2014 as Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Manager at the pharmaceutical company. A year later, she became Digital Project Manager at e-commerce company Plastimea. She subsequently joined Bayer, the international healthcare and nutrition company, as Cardiovascular Product Manager.

In 2017, Tall moved to Laboratoires URGO Healthcare, where she worked as a pharmacy trainer and sales coach. In 2019, she became Training and Marketing Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at cosmetics company NAOS. From 2022 to 2025, she worked as a Management and Strategy Consultant for IQVIA, the global clinical research services provider, in Côte d’Ivoire.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange J.A de Berry Quenum