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Moky Makura

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Moky Makura
Makura at the International Journalism Festival in 2024

Moky Makura is a Nigerian author, journalist, actress, and businesswoman, who serves as executive director of Africa No Filter (ANF), an organization aiming at inducing changes in Africa by means of mass media.

Life

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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,[1][2] and in 1999, started her own consultancy company.[3] She was deputy director for Communications Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and since 2017 the representative of the Foundation in South Africa.[1]

In March 2020, she took up the role of executive director of the not-for-profit organization Africa No Filter (ANF).She took up her role as Executive Director of ANF in March 2020.[4]

In South Africa, she also acted on television, mainly in the Jacob's Cross drama series.[2]

Books

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  • Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs, Penguin Random House (2008).

References

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  1. ^ a b "Moky Makura". Africa No Filter.
  2. ^ a b "Moky Makura". TVSA - The South African TV Authority.
  3. ^ SAinfo reporter (18 February 2009). "Meet Africa's greatest entrepreneurs". Brand South Africa.
  4. ^ Mogoatlhe, Lerato (18 August 2020). "Moky Makura Wants to Change the Way the World Sees Africa by Empowering Its Storytellers". Global Citizen. Retrieved 3 January 2023.