ASHABA FLIGHTS TRAVEL AGENCY
The journey of a woman who rewrote what was possible for Africa's daughters of flight
Pioneering Ugandan Aviator
Faridah Ashaba's journey did not begin at 35,000 feet. It began on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda, where the dream of flying felt as distant as the clouds overhead. Raised by a single mother, her early life was shaped more by resilience than runway lights.
"There were no pilots in her family. Not on either maternal or paternal lines. The skies belonged to someone else. Until she decided they did not."At the East African Civil Aviation Academy, Faridah encountered women aviators who quietly rewired her sense of what was possible. What began as an arts student's curiosity evolved into a life governed by physics, navigation systems, and an uncompromising relationship with precision.
She became the first in her lineage to earn her wings — not as an escape from gravity, but as a redefinition of it.
To Faridah, the cockpit is not merely an instrument-filled chamber of switches and screens. It is a canvas of consequence.
Through her public reflections and aviation education content, she demystifies flight systems and aviation thinking for audiences who have never sat in a cockpit, let alone imagined themselves there. Each explanation becomes a quiet classroom. Each insight lowers the perceived barrier to entry.
Faridah Ashaba's influence does not end with takeoff and landing. She is a speaker, mentor, and advocate whose presence in schools, public forums, and youth spaces plants long-term seeds. Her work consistently centers girls and young women, not as beneficiaries of charity, but as rightful participants in aviation, STEM, and leadership.
She is not performing motivation. She is engineering possibility.First in Family
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The sky is not a limit. It is a starting point — and for Africa's daughters of flight, it is only the beginning.
— Captain Faridah Ashaba
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