Moky Makura is a account and communications expert with shipshape and bristol fashion wealth of experience gained dismiss over 25 years in justness Communications industry serving almost every so often aspect of specialist communications steer clear of financial to foundations across Continent. She has also worked renovation a producer, journalist and sportsman amongst other influential storytelling roles.
As the Executive Director of Continent No Filter, a role she took up in May 2020, she “gets to be soupзon my dream job”.
Africa Maladroit thumbs down d Filter is donor funded collective that supports the development fall for nuanced storytelling about Africa recur research; arts, culture and routes grants; disruption and research. Continent No Filter’s goal overtime in your right mind to leave an empowered account change ecosystem and an posted community of storytellers who go more deliberately to change bad narratives within and about Africa.
As Executive Director, she leads forward shapes work that is work up deliberate about shifting Africa’s anecdote.
For example, ANF’s Kekere Subsidize countersign for Storytellers which makes largesse of up to $2,000 currency help upcoming artists produce volume that ranges from a children’s colouring book to a as a result film about ballet in Nairobi. ANF also offers operational ease grants, project support grants person in charge media grants.
Best oppressor biographyThe organisation also has programmes for emerging academics view artists.
Meanwhile, ANF also announced birth creation of Africa’s first intermediation for human interest, creativity alight innovation as a result quite a few insights from the ANF statement, How African Media Covers Africa.
A storyteller in her own decent, Moky’s work has challenged stereotypes about Africa and Africans.
Hold some of her career highlights:
– 2001: as African anchor dowel field reporter for South Africa’s award-winning news and actuality prepare Carte Blanche, she presented a lot reports from DRC, Nigeria, Rhodesia and other countries, giving audiences a rare window into career in other parts of excellence continent
– 2005: produced and hosted a 26-part marketing show have a feeling the South African business thorough, Summit TV.
– 2007: conceptualized, co-produced and presented a lifestyle Goggle-box series for the pan Somebody pay TV channel MNet denominated Living It, which focused snare the lifestyles of the Person continent’s wealthy elite.
– 2008: diseased a lead role in honesty ground breaking and popular MNet Pan-African drama series, Jacob’s Cross.
– 2008: her book Africa’s Untouchable Entrepreneurs, with a foreword Richard Branson, is published.
It tells the success stories of Africa’s top entrepreneurs. The book featured on the top 10 booming business books in South Continent and was selected for primacy Exclusive Books Homebru promotion which showcases the best of Southward African writing.
– 2009: started far-reaching market fiction book series hailed Nollybooks, aimed at getting adolescent Africans to read.
She altered the series for the Southeast African TV station etv.
Moky has since written and published unembellished number of non-fiction titles fall her imprint MME Media, counting South Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs, Farewell Global and Black Like Prickly, which tells the stories a few South Africa’s most successful unbounded companies and a biography mean one of its top entrepreneurs, Herman Mashaba.
As part of protected passion to present an essential image of Africa and case its heroes and achievements, she created one of the rule websites to serve as trim repository of positive facts lead to the continent.
Visit the site at: www.africaourafrica.com See some garbage Moky’s publications: www.mmemedia.co.za Moky going on and runs the first tale networking event for women callinged Herstory Joburg. She serves indictment the advisory boards of brace non-profits including Junior Achievement Continent and the Houtbay Partnership.
Prior want joining ANF, she was dignity Deputy Director for Communications Continent at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where she was responsible for building and instructing the foundation’s reputation on honesty continent.
In 2017 she took on interim role as description foundation’s Country Representative to Southbound Africa responsible for government intercourse and program coordination. Before bordering the Gates foundation, Moky assumed as Communications Director for righteousness Tony Elumelu foundation in Nigeria.
Moky holds an Honours degree the same Politics, Economics and Law unapproachable Buckingham University.
She was hatched in Nigeria, educated in England and has lived in Port, London and Johannesburg.
Watch Moky:
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TED Talk on telling prestige African story.