Samba Yonga
| Born | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Zambian |
| Occupation | Journalist, media consultant |
| Years active | |
| Known for | |
| Notable work | Creation of Zambia's Museum of Women's History |
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| Children |
Samba Yonga is a Zambian journalist and media consultant. She has worked as editor for Big Issue Zambia and has written for several other publications. Yonga is the founder of Ku-Atenga Media, a media consultancy firm and was named one of Destiny's "Power of 40" most influential women in Africa in 2017.
Career
Samba Yonga first became interested in journalism after she won a prize for a short story she had written.[1] She attended college and whilst there worked part time for a local newspaper.[1] After graduation Yong found worked developing ideas for TV and radio programmes.[2] She was then appointed to run the relaunched Trendsetters youth magazine.[1] Yonga has also written for Okay Africa magazine and The Guardian.[3][4] Yonga was editorial director of the Big Issue Zambia magazine, which was launched by the International Network of Street Papers in 2007.[1] The magazine was published in six countries and Yonga travelled frequently to visit these.[2]
Yonga established a media consultancy company, Ku-Atenga Media, from the word for "to create" in Luvale, her native language.[2] Shortly afterwards she left Zambia to study for a masters degree in global media and translation communication at the University of London.[2] Upon her return she began to expand Ku-Atenga, providing consultancy services on communications strategy. The company now carries out work for local and international clients, including the Zambian government, European Union and the United Nations.[5]
Yonga began the Narratives of Silenced Voices to research and publish the stories of African women from history.[5][6] The project was run in conjunction with the Template:Ill, a women's history museum in Sweden, and Zambian activist Mulenga Kapwepwe.[6] Yonga developed the project into the Zambian Museum of Women's History, initially as an online-only offering but with a view to having a physical location to allow display of artefacts collected by the project.[6]
Yonga writes a blog on WordPress.[7] She was named one of Destiny's "Power of 40" most influential women in Africa of 2017.[5]
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 UzaCoona Magazine. 26 July 2017. URL.
- ↑ Okay Africa. 9 August 2016. URL.
- ↑ The Guardian. 21 September 2011. URL.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lusaka Times. 1 November 2017. URL.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 LusakaTimes.com. 23 November 2016. URL.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 4515: attempt to index field 'date_names' (a nil value).
