Moky Makura |
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.
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]