Mylène Flicka

Mylène Flicka (born Marie-Madeleine Fifamè Akrota; 22 July 1996) is a Beninese blogger, activist and social media entrepreneur.

Biography Marie-Madeleine Fifamè Akrota was born on 22 July 1996. She adopted the pseudonym Mylène Flicka when she was 14 years old, inspired by Mary O'Hara's novel My Friend Flicka. Aged 17, Flicka began her first blog, which was dedicated to highlight issues around women's rights in Benin. In 2011 she came first place in Benin's Literary Baccalaureate.

In 2015, using money from her student grant, she set up Irawo Media in order to showcase role models for young people from Benin and beyond. One of the first people to be profiled by Flicka was Marie-Cécile Zinsou, many other notable African has followed since. In 2017 she ran a campaign on social media called #FreeMyBoobs, which tried make it more acceptable for women to not wear a bra.

In 2018 Flicka was part of the #TaxePasMesMo (translation: Don't Tax My Megabytes) campaign, where the government of Benin had tried to levy a social media tax on internet access, texts and calls. Flicka helped to organise and social media campaign, as well as peaceful protest around the cities. After ten days, the government withdrew the tax. In October 2018 Flicka was sponsored by UNICEF to address the French National Assembly on World Girls Day.