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

  1. ↑ Mogoatlhe, Lerato (18 August 2020). "Moky Makura Wants to Change the Way the World Sees Africa by Empowering Its Storytellers". Global Citizen.
  2. 1 2 "Moky Makura". Africa No Filter.
  3. 1 2 "Moky Makura". TVSA - The South African TV Authority.
  4. ↑ SAinfo reporter (18 February 2009). "Meet Africa's greatest entrepreneurs". Brand South Africa.
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