A woman with long brown braids, clear glasses, and an orange shirt looks seriously at the camera.

Samba Yonga

Co-Founder
Women’s History Museum of Zambia

Zambia

Samba Yonga is a Co-Founder of the Women’s History Museum of Zambia.  She is a communications specialist, cultural curator and an award-winning journalist. She is also the founder and managing partner of Ku-Atenga Media, a company that provides communications specialist services across Africa. Samba has been recognized as 100 most influential Africans by Quartz, New York, and one of 40 most influential Africans. She is also a Google Podcast Creator, TEDx Lusaka speaker and has been selected for the distinguished Museum Lab Fellowship for 2022 in Germany and France. She has curated exhibitions, designed digital creative content and written papers focused on indigenous African knowledge systems and narratives in Zambia and Africa. She is a graduate of the Evelyn Hone College School of Journalism and holds an MA in Transnational Communications and Global Media from Goldsmiths College, University of London.