Samba Yonga is a Zambian journalist and media consultant. She has worked a long time as editor for ''

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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. She attended college and whilst there worked part-time for a local newspaper. After graduation Yonga found work developing ideas for TV and radio programmes. She was then appointed to run the relaunched ''Trendsetters'' youth magazine. Yonga has also written for ''Okay Africa'' magazine and ''

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''. Yonga was editorial director of ''

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in 2007. The magazine was published in six countries and Yonga travelled frequently to visit these. Yonga established a media consultancy company, Ku-Atenga Media, from the word for "to create" in Luvale, her native language. Shortly afterwards, she left Zambia to study for a master's degree in global media and translation communication at the

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. 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. Yonga began the ''Narratives of Silenced Voices'' to research and publish the stories of African women from history. The project was run in conjunction with the , a women's history museum in Sweden, and Zambian activist Mulenga Kapwepwe. 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. The Women's History Museum of Zambia has worked with Swedish ethnographers to facilitate the digital repatriation of Zambian cultural objects and artefacts. Yonga writes a blog on

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. She was named one of '' Destiny's'' "Power of 40" most influential women in Africa of 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yonga, Samba Living people Zambian journalists Zambian women journalists 21st-century Zambian writers 21st-century Zambian women writers People from Lusaka Year of birth missing (living people)