Theme: Redefining Our Identity

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Zambia

Emmanuel Mwiche

Emmanuel Mwiche is the Winner of the 2017 Zee Music Creative Awards for best Zambian Photographer of the year. He is a multi-talented creative known for his self-taught photography skills. Away from photography, he is an avid music curator, social media influencer and one of the three founder members of Cognify, Zambia 1st search engine.

Grey Mhattson

Grey Mhattson, Real name Jabulani Zulu is a creative currently pursuing music, poetry and writing. He is a song writer and instrumentalist.

Kalenga Chambatu

Kalenga Chambatu, Popularly known as K-PLUS, was born in Kalulushi, Zambia. His passion for being on radio has been so strong in him from as far back as he can remember. In 2006, he dropped out of University to pursue his passion for radio. He worked for several radio stations in Zambia before he quit to start his own company, PLUS ONE MEDIA, radio productions and marketing company in 2017. In 2019 he set up his own radio called CHETE 89.9FM (which broadcasts in the Muchinga province of Zambia). His passion for radio is only equaled by his passion for reading biographies of great men and women who have achieved a lot.

Madei Lillian Kaseke

Madei Lillian Kaseke is an Educator, Social Entrepreneur, Consultant, Trainer, Mentor, Mandela Washington Fellow and Young African Leaders Initiative Southern African Regional Leadership Centre alumni. She has 7 years experience in Education, Gender, Disability rights, Women and Girls empowerment, Women and Girls in Sport. Madei is focused on making a huge impact in the lives of learners and adults living with disabilities. She advocates for the right of inclusion of persons with disabilities and the need to make sure that the She is keen on raising awareness on the use of ‘people first language and disability etiquette’ when addressing persons living with disabilities. She is also passionate about using sports to advocate for disability rights, improve lives of persons living with disabilities as well as advocating and raising awareness on independent living. Her passion currently lies in working on a projects to change the narrative of inclusion and independent living for persons living with disabilities and also to influence policy in this regard.

Martina Hajkova Mwanza

Born in Czech Republic Martina came to Zambia in 2010 to undertake social research for her Master's thesis and stayed on. It was during her time as lecturer at the Zambia Catholic University that her desire to promote the use of film in the learning process and create a platform for college and university students to share ideas led to the founding of SOTAMBE. The SOTAMBE Film Institute offers workshops and film-making boot camps while remaining the biggest film festival in Zambia promoting local productions. Martina's dream is to create an international standard film festival for Southern African filmmakers.

Monica Mulenga

Monica Mulenga firmly believes in and creates literacy projects to encourage a “Yes, I can” attitude within schools that rub off on both children and teachers alike. With over five years working experience in software and systems management as well as starting an events management business, she was selected to attend the US Department of State’s Professional Fellows Program in 2014 and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya in 2015. Volunteering with The Book Bus Foundation (UK) in 2010 gave Monica the inspiration to found The Book Bus (Zambia) in 2014 to develop a literacy support programme specifically for schools in Zambia to promote the joy of reading in both local language and English. The Book Bus (Zambia) operates a mobile literacy support service that provides training, books and library resources to schools around the country.

Mutetelenu Kalama

Mutetelenu is a Co-founder of a youth led organization called Agents of Change Foundation, this organization uses Radio to advocate for social issues .In 2016 she was nominated for the All African Women in Climate Change Award, in 2018 the Women Economic Forum awarded her an International Award on ‘’Young Women Creating a better World for all’’, in the same year 2018 she was named as the top 100 SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) Young Women Influencers in Africa. She is part of big Network of World Change makers called Robert Bosch Network. She is a proud KUPES girl and a Pan Africanist that believes so much in the authenticity of Africa and Human beings as a whole.

Mwanangwa Zombe

Mwanangwa Zombe holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Zambia Catholic University and currently works as an Operations Officer in Solwezi, Zambia. Mwanangwa was raised in Kalulushi, Zambia where he did his Primary and Secondary education at Kalulushi Trust School. He is passionate about art, especially poetry.

Mwansa Chalo

Mwansa Chalo, describes himself as a Pan-African entrepreneur, Economist. He co-founded a cleaning services company called Spotless Africa which is the leading window cleaning brand in Zambia boasting more than 120 clients in five towns. Chalo is a recipient of the Humanity Leadership Award under Champions of Humanity and a Fellow of the Engineers without Borders Canada. he co-founded an award-winning social initiative called The Piggy Bank Campaign. This Campaign helps underprivileged learners in community schools access quality education. He has seven years of experience in the media, both television and radio.