Khalila Kellz Mbowe is a Tanzanian
creative performance director and
social entrepreneur, who is the founder,
managing director
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and
chief executive officer
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of ''Unleashed Africa Social Ventures'', an enterprise that trains gifted young people in the performing arts, offering education, mentoring, exposure and opportunities to succeed in life.
Background and education
She was born in Tanzania circa 1988,
and attended "Saint Mary’s Secondary School", in
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...
for her high school education. She holds an
Advanced Diploma in Mass Communication, obtained from
Taylor's University, in
Malaysia
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, in 2010. She also holds a
Master of Business Administration
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degree from the
African Leadership University.
Career
In 2006, at the age of 18 years, she obtained her first job as a
copywriter
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at FCB Advertising Agency, a subsidiary of Lowe Scanad Tanzania Limited. After working in that capacity for two months, she was promoted to an account executive handling the account of one of Tanzania's leading telecommunications companies.
In 2010, after graduating from Taylor's University, she landed a job working for
Airtel Tanzania
Airtel Tanzania Limited is the third-largest mobile network operator in Tanzania operated by Airtel Africa, which is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel of India, behind Vodacom Tanzania and Tigo Tanzania. As of September 2017, Airtel Tanzania had 10. ...
, a subsidiary of
India
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's
Bharti Airtel
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, working there for one year, from 2013 until 2014. From April 2015 until December 2015, she worked as the Chief Executive Officer of "Buddies Production Company Limited", a television production company from
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
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that was looking to expand in Tanzania.
Since February 2015, she has focused on running Unleased Africa Social Ventures, and pursuing her education in business administration, online. Her company employed 20 people as of November 2017. Some of her clients have included
Vodacom,
Total Tanzania, Uongozi Institute,
TED Global
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and Sera Project.
Other considerations
Khalila Mbowe is the mother of two children; Raphael, born circa 2009 and Belle, born circa 2014.
See also
References
External links
Website of Khalila Kellz Mbowe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mbowe, Khalila
Living people
1988 births
Tanzanian businesspeople
Tanzanian women in business
Taylor's University alumni
21st-century Tanzanian women
Tanzanian chief executives
People from Dar es Salaam
People from Kilimanjaro Region
University of the People alumni
African Leadership University alumni
21st-century Tanzanian people
21st-century businesswomen