Nigerian-born Moky Makura, who is well known to African television viewers as a TV presenter/ producer, has just notched up another achievement. Makura, who lives in Johannesburg, recently had her book Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs published by Penguin. It is a collection of stories about 16 of the most successful entrepreneurs and business visionaries currently operating in Africa.
Among the entrepreneurs whom she focuses on are Kagiso Mmusi, the Motswana transport millionaire; Richard Maponya, the South African retail giant behind Soweto’s Maponya Mall; Kwabena Adjei, the rags-to-riches Ghanaian millionaire; Wale Tinubu, the Nigerian head of the Oando oil and gas giant; Ndaba Ntsele, the South African king of high finance; and Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese-born telecoms millionaire.
Her next project is to develop a television series based on the book. Her previous TV series, called Living It, which she co-produced and presented for M-Net, examined the lifestyle’s of the African continent’s wealthy elite.
Makura who holds an Honours degree in Politics, Economics and Law from Buckingham University in the UK, was the African Anchor presenter and field reporter for South Africa’s award winning news and actuality show, Carte Blanche, from 2001 to 2006.
In 2004, Moky presented an hour long interview format show called African Pioneers which was syndicated to commercial stations in five African countries including Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi. In 2005, she produced and hosted a 26 part marketing show on the South African business channel, Summit TV. She also appears in the Pan-African drama series, Jacob’s Cross, on M-Net.
As part of her passion to present a positive image of Africa and showcase its heroes and achievements, she started a website where visitors can contribute to creating a repository of positive facts about Africa. Visit the website at www.africaourafrica.com
