Dr. Edward Mabaya

Dr. Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Global Development where his teaching, research and outreach work focuses on […]
Omar Ben Yedder

Group Publisher and Managing Director “Our group has a passion for Africa and the benchmarks we are trying to establish within the group are to report Africa with professional excellence and deep historical as well as cultural insight; and to present a balanced analytical foresight of its future. We aim to do our best consistently and […]
Mmabatho Maboya

Mmabatho Maboya is the current Chief Executive Officer of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation. Mmabatho joined the Foundation in 2015 as its Strategy and Partnerships Executive. She managed key processes that enabled the Foundation to meaningfully respond to its development partners and beneficiaries. Mmabatho is an experienced communications and stakeholder relations professional with strong capabilities to link […]
Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa
Tabitha Mpamira

A therapist, activist, motivational speaker, and consultant on sexual and gender-based violence, she founded EDJA to provide free medical, legal, and mental health services to survivors of sexual assault in East Africa. EDJA, now a program under Nyaka Global in Southwestern Uganda, supports hundreds of survivors and brings perpetrators to justice. She was recognized by […]
Yolanda Mlonzi
Charles Murito
Rachel Uwase

Rachel Uwase is a child advocate and community leader who works to support assault survivors with an emphasis on mental health and emotional restoration through the lens of intersectionality and global wellness. She currently works as the Project Coordinator for the I Am Enough program, a culturally responsive and manualized treatment intervention that aims to […]
Bright Simons

Bright Simons, is the President of mPedigree [link to:www.mpedigree.com], a social enterprise working on three continents in partnership with governments, several of the Fortune 500 companies and grassroots organisations to spread innovative technologies that secure communities from the harmful effects of counterfeiting, especially in such sensitive sectors as health, agriculture, cosmetics and automotive. Bright has […]
Dr. Debisi Araba

Dr. ‘Debisi Araba is a public policy and strategy specialist and is currently the Managing Director at the AGRF, the premier catalytic, multi-partner platform for food and agriculture transformation in Africa. He is also a member of the Malabo Montpellier Panel of international agriculture experts who guide policy choices that accelerate progress towards food and […]
Yvonne Manzi Makolo

Yvonne Manzi Makolo was appointed RwandAir’s CEO on 6th April, 2018. She joined RwandAir in April 2017 as the Deputy CEO in Charge of Corporate Affairs. Previously, she worked with MTN Rwanda, the largest communication company in the country as the Chief Marketing Officer and briefly as the Acting CEO. She brings over 11 years […]