Moky Makura is a Nigerian author, journalist, actress, and businesswoman who serves as an executive director of ''Africa No Filter'', 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

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of the

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. She has a degree in politics, economics, and law from

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. In 1998, she moved to South Africa, and in 1999, started her own consultancy company. She was deputy director for Communications Africa at the

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, and since 2017 the representative of the Foundation in South Africa. In South Africa, she also acted on television, mainly in the ''

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'' drama series.

Books

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

References

{{Authority control Living people Nigerian journalists Year of birth missing (living people)