Moky Makura

Makura was born in Lagos, Nigeria, as a member of the House of Akinsemoyin, a royal family of the Nigerian chieftaincy system.^[2][3] She has a degree in politics, economics, and law from the University of Buckingham. In 1998, she moved to South Africa,^[4][5] and in 1999, started her own consultancy company.^[6] She was deputy director for Communications Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and since 2017 the representative of the Foundation in South Africa.^[4]

In March 2020, she took up a role within the not-for-profit organization Africa No Filter (ANF). She has served as Executive Director of ANF since that time.^[7]

In South Africa, she also acted on television, mainly in the Jacob's Cross drama series.^[5]

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