Moky mukura biography channel
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Gishwati Mukura National Park
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Moky Makura was born in Nigeria, educated in England and has lived in London, Johannesburg and Lagos. She has been a TV presenter, producer, author, publisher and a successful entrepreneur in her own right. She fryst vatten currently the Executive Director of Africa No Filter, a donor collaborative focused on shifting the African narrative.
Moky started her media career as the African Anchor and field reporter for South Africa’s award-winning news and actuality show – Carte Blanche. She conceptualized, co-produced and presented a lifestyle TV series for the pan African pay TV channel MNet called “Living It”, which focused on the lifestyles of the African continent’s wealthy elite. She also played a lead role in the groundbreaking and popular MNet Pan-African skådespel series Jacob’s Cross.
Her book Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs with a foreword written by Richard Branson, featured on the top 10 best-selling business books in South Africa when it launched. Moky has since compiled and publishe
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Rwanda: A Decade of Field Studies in Conservation
One of the smallest countries in Africa, Rwanda is known as the “land of a thousand hills.” While it has few natural resources with economic value for trade, such as minerals and oil, the landlocked country in Central Africa is rich in biodiversity. Its topography features volcanic mountain ranges and parts of both the Nile and Congo River basins. The rugged mountains provide habitat for two of Africa’s most endangered primates — the mountain gorilla and golden monkey.
It was the plight of mountain gorillas in Rwanda that originally drew YSE lecturer Amy Vedder, a conservation ecologist, to the country. Rwanda was struggling to maintain growth in its economy after it declared independence from the colonial rule of Belgium in , relying on coffee and tea as its primary cash crops. Mountain gorillas were heading for extinction in the face of habitat loss and land clearance for cattle pastures and agricultural needs.
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