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[[File:Maureen_Nkandu.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Maureen Nkandu.]]'''Maureen Nkandu''' is a [[Zambia]]n international [[journalist]] and communications expert. She began her career at the [[ZNBC|Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation|Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC)]] aged 18. She is daughter of the late veteran journalist and lecturer, [[Faxon Nkandu]], a former News Editor of the [[Times of Zambia]].

Maureen was born in 1968 in [[Lusaka]] to Faxon Nkandu and Grace Chakulunta. She was influenced by her father Faxon Nkandu, former News Editor of the Times of Zambia, and one of very few African journalists to cover the Vietnam War. Out of all of his children, she was the one who showed the most interest in his work. She was nicknamed a reporter both at home and at school because she frequently told on her peers and siblings whenever they did something wrong. At age 11, Maureen read [[Maureen Nkandu speech at 1979 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting|a speech]] on behalf of all Commonwealth children to the Queen of England and other British and Zambian government leaders at the [[1979 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting]] in Lusaka.