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Mika Chavala: Pan-Africanist, author, speaker, and host of the One Africa Podcast. Founder of Swahili Nation, the One Africa Movement, the One Africa Forum, and Kairos Mega Investment, initiatives united by one mission: to transform the African mind, unite the continent, and advance the vision of a prosperous, borderless Africa with a single African passport.
About Mika
The debut book
Freedom of thought and Africa's path to transformation. The argument in one line: Africa's future will not be imported. Africans will build it.
The journey
1993
Iringa, Tanzania
Mika Lucas Chavala is born in Iringa, in Tanzania's southern highlands. Raised in the region, he attends Tanzania's public education system, where his early experiences help shape the values, curiosity, and vision that would later define his work as an entrepreneur, author, and Pan-African thinker.
2011
Minaki high school
2010s
Seoul, South Korea
Awarded a prestigious Korean Government Scholarship, Mika Lucas Chavala moves to Seoul, South Korea, where he learns the Korean language and studies Economics. Living abroad broadens his perspective, allowing him to see Africa through a global lens while deepening his conviction that the continent's greatest potential lies in its own people, ideas, and institutions.
Conversations with the founders, thinkers and builders shaping Africa's future.
Find out more
Mika has held rooms from the Pan-African Youth Summit in Addis Ababa to Seoul National University's lecture halls, in English, Swahili and Korean. Audiences leave with the argument for one Africa and one passport, and the feeling that it is theirs to execute.
National TV panels, university stages, creator workshops and conferences. Tell his team about your event and they will come back with availability.
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