Gwamaka Kifukwe Civil Servant

Gwamaka was born in Oslo, Norway in 1985 to a Norwegian mother and a Tanzanian father. After two years, he and his family moved to Dar es Salaam, where he attended IST from Kindergarten to graduation in 2003. Ms. Verschuren, his old math teacher, says he was a bright, respectful, hard-working person who everyone loved. He was part of four ISSEA winning teams, three of which he captained.

After IST, he went on to higher studies, where he eventually earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Nottingham. He now works in Tanzania at the Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development (UONGOZI Institute), a national organization focused on improving African leadership for sustainable development. Within UONGOZI Institute, he coordinates the Green Growth Platform, a program for encouraging environmentally sustainable development in Tanzania. Also he is in charge of the institute’s television programs, ‘In Focus’ which focuses on sustainable solutions in African communities and ‘Meet the Leader,’ where he carries out interviews on current, past and prospective African leaders. Outside of the institute all together, he has been recognised for participating in the Global Shapers Community (a World Economic Forum initiative); President Obama’s YALI Mandela-Washington Fellow (inaugural class, 2014 – Public Management); and the University of Cape Town’s young leadership programme (inaugural class, 2015 – ‘Leading in Public Life’).