Moky Makura
Moky Makura is a Nigerian author, journalist, actress, and businesswoman who serves as an executive director of Africa No Filter,[1] an organization aiming at inducing changes in Africa by means of mass media.
Life[]
Makura was born in Lagos, Nigeria, as a member of the House of Akinsemoyin, a royal family of the Nigerian chieftaincy system. She has a degree in politics, economics, and law from University of Buckingham. In 1998, she moved to South Africa,[2][3] and in 1999, started her own consultancy company.[4] She was Deputy Director for Communications Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and since 2017 the representative of the Foundation in South Africa.[2]
In South Africa, she also acted on television, mainly in the Jacob's Cross drama series.[3]
Books[]
- Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs, Penguin Random House (2008).
References[]
- ^ Mogoatlhe, Lerato (18 August 2020). "Moky Makura Wants to Change the Way the World Sees Africa by Empowering Its Storytellers". Global Citizen.
- ^ a b "Moky Makura". Africa No Filter.
- ^ a b "Moky Makura". TVSA - The South African TV Authority.
- ^ SAinfo reporter (18 February 2009). "Meet Africa's greatest entrepreneurs". Brand South Africa.
- Living people
- Nigerian journalists