Our Executive Team of Gov-Enhancers come from diverse cultures, multiple professional and academic backgrounds, with the same vision – to engage their passion to facilitate Africa’s Young Leaders role in improving the lives of African citizens through creating policy solutions and enhancing governance.
Zuwa Matondo
President & Founder
Country of Origin: Zimbabwe
Languages: English, Shona, Mandarin
Education: McGill University - BA in Political Science & Int'l Development Studies; McGill University - LL.B and B.C.L.
Zuwa possesses a multi-cultural fluency having travelled extensively in Africa and worked in countries such as Canada, China, and Zimbabwe. As a trainee lawyer at both an American international firm and a top ranked Canadian national law firm he engaged in complex multi-jurisdictional business transactions, litigation matters and in-depth government policy analysis. Zuwa’s work has spanned sectors including mining, renewable energy, project finance, infrastructure, international trade and foreign investment.
Zuwa is passionate about the efficient operation of government to deliver basic services to its citizens and in particular advancing the integration of young Africans into governance leadership and decision-making structures.
Shingirai Mtero
Vice-President & Director of Publications
Country of Origin: Zimbabwe
Languages: English, Shona
Education: University of Cape Town - B.Sc. in Microbiology; Rhodes University - MA in Int'l Studies (Human Security); Rhodes University - Currently pursuing a PhD in Int'l Studies.
Shingi is a Rhodes University Prestigious Scholar. Her teaching and research areas include Int'l Peace, Security and Justice, Human Security, African Peace and Security Architecture, Conflict Management, African Governance, and IR Theory. Her current research focuses on the International Criminal Court and the increasingly complex nexus between international justice and political diplomacy & stability in Africa.
She is of the strong belief that African youth have the capabilities to translate the continents’ unique economic and political landscape into sustainable, wealth and development generating enterprises.
Christelle Lorraine Dossa
Director of Communications & Social Media
Country of Origin: Benin
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Education: McGill University - BA in Economics ,East Asian Studies and African Studies
Christelle has lived and studied in 7 countries in Africa, Europe and North America. Over the years, she has gained experience in several fields including Management Consulting, Finance,and Business Management. She has served as the President of McGill’s African Students Society and is the founder of McGill’s Black Students’ Alumni Network. Christelle has organized numerous events and conferences. In 2011, she co-founded the Africa: Next Generation Convention, bringing together multidisciplinary speakers and attendees from Africa and North America including African Development Bank representatives and African Diplomats.
Christelle is passionate about intra-continental Trade and Event Management. Her personal mission is to promote and scale African businesses and utilization of the continent’s talent.
Moamar Tidjani
Regional Associate (West Africa, Francophone Africa)
Country of Origin: Togo
Languages: French, English, Yoruba, Mina
Education: American University - B.Sc. in Business Administration; Laval University - B.C.L.; Université de Montréal - HEC
Moamar is a Quebec qualified lawyer and has worked in several countries in Africa, the U.S. and Canada. He has previously served on the board of the Desjardins Financial Union. As finance director of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa he managed a 13 Million Dollar budget. Moamar has also won the top awards during both the annual Quebec Bar Association radio debate competition and the Quebec City Young Bar Association speaking contest. Whilst at HEC Montreal, he wrote a thesis on the influence of governance on financial performance.
Moamar is passionate about promoting pluralism in governance, in particular promoting female leadership in Africa. He believes strongly that Africa will create more wealth for its people if more women rise to leadership positions.
Danielle Mpalirwa
Regional Associate (Central Africa, East Africa)
Countries of Origin: Rwanda, Kenya
Languages: English, Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda, French
Education: University of Toronto - BA (Hons.) in Peace & Conflict Studies and Political Science; Carleton University - Currently pursuing MA in African Studies.
Danielle is a published human rights researcher and recipient of several awards related to her work from the University of Toronto and the Women’s Human Rights Institute, among others.
Danielle is passionate about the intersection of human rights and development in Africa. An avid admirer of African thought leaders such as Sankara, Nyerere and Nkrumah, she is particularly interested in the construction of development policies suited to African particularities that can then be appropriated to promote human rights on the continent.
Board of Editors
Our Board of Editors consists of renowned scholars and professionals who ensure the academic rigour, integrity, and policy/governance merits of submissions published by Gov-Enhance Africa. The Board members have extensive multi-faceted academic and technical experience in some of the world’s and Africa’s top academic institutes, international organizations and private firms.
Prof. Tendayi E. Achiume
Board of Editors
Countries of Origin: Zambia, Zimbabwe
Languages: English, Shona, Bemba, French
Education: Yale University - BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics; Yale Law School - J.D; Yale University - Graduate Certificate in Development Studies.
Tendayi E. Achiume is presently an Assistant Professor of Law at the at UCLA School of Law, and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Prior to joining UCLA Professor Achiume clerked for Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and taught on the faculty of the International Human Rights Exchange Programme based at the University of the Witswatersrand. She was awarded honours by The Sunrise Foundation, Topol Foundation, and Georg Leitner Fellowships, respectively, for independent research on land reform in South Africa. She is also the recipient of the Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, the Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship and the Fox International Research Fellowship.
She has extensive legal experience having worked at La Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (RHADDO), Dakar Senegal, Human Rights Watch, New York and a leading international law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York.
Her teaching and research areas include: International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law (Theory and Clinical Practice), Comparative and Transnational Immigration Law and International Criminal Justice. Her research publications Include: “Syria and the Responsibility to Protect Refugees” (Minnesota Law Review} and “Beyond Prejudice: Structural Xenophobic Discrimination Against Refugees,” (Georgetown Journal of International Law). She has been invited to numerous conferences across the globe, speaking on concerns of Xenophobia, Forced migration and Human Rights, to name a few.
Dr. Fiifi Edu-Afful
Board of Editors
Country/Countries of Origin: Ghana
Languages: English, Akan
Education: University of Ghana - BA in Political Science & Psychology; University of Cape Coast - M.Phil. in Development Studies; University of Ibadan - PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Institute of African Studies.
Dr. Edu-Afful is presently the Deputy Program Head of Peace Support Operations Program at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra Ghana. He is also presently a Research Fellow with the Conflict Peace and Security Programme (CPSP), Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research (FAAR), (KAIPTC).
Since its inception of KAIPTC in 2003, under Dr. Edu-Afful's supervision, the centre has run over 300 training courses for more than 10,000 individuals from over 88 countries, and major organisations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. Furthermore he is involved in the KAIPTC field-training team, which conducts pre-deployment training courses for units within the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), military observers, officers designated for United Nations (UN)/African Union (AU) missions.
Dr. Edu-Afful’s teaching and research interests include: Peacekeeping & Peace Support Operations, Comparative African Politics, African Political Economy, International Conflicts, Election Security, and Gender & Development. He has a broad list of publications in continental and international peer-reviewed journals, and his publications include: “The Lebanon-Israel War of 2006: Global Effects and its Aftermath” (Small Wars Journal), “Unintended impacts and the gendered consequences of peacekeeping economies in Liberia” (International Peacekeeping), and “Peacekeeping Economies in a Sub-regional Context: The Paradigmatic Cases of Mano River Union States” (Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding).
Dr. Eric Soubeiga
Board of Editors
Country of Origin: Burkina Faso
Languages: French and English
Education: H.B. University of Science & Technology - Diplome d’Ingenieur (MSc) in Operations Research; ENSIMAG – DEA (M.Phil.) in Operations Research; University of Nottingham – PhD in Operations Research and Computer Science.
Dr. Eric Soubeiga is presently a Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, based in their Johannesburg, South Africa office. He is responsible for the IFC’s investment in the health and education sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa. He has led several investment transactions from origination through to execution and portfolio management.
Prior to joining the IFC in Johannesburg in 2011, Dr. Soubeiga worked in finance between 2005 and 2011 in the City of London where he held roles in Consultancy and Transaction Advisory, Leveraged Finance and latterly Private Equity focusing on investing in UK and European companies in the IT, business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and telecom sectors.
Dr. Soubeiga is also an academic researcher and teacher by background. He also held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham (UK) where he was involved in academic research as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research supervision. His area of expertise is Operations Research and Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Soubeiga has published numerous research articles in international scientific journals, peer-reviewed books, as well as peer-reviewed conference proceedings in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. His most recent publication is a text book for finance professionals published in 2013 with McGraw-Hill, “Mastering Financial Modeling: A Professional’s Guide to Building Financial Models in Excel”.