Nemata Majeks-Walker

Majeks-Walker was born to a Muslim family in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.[2] She was an only child.[2] Her mother died when she was only five years old.[2] She was raised by her great-grandmother and other family members.[2]

She was educated at the Methodist Girls' School, Magburaka Secondary School for Girls in Mathora, and Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown.[2]

She won a government scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from Fourah Bay College (FBC) in 1972. She trained as a teacher and earned a post-graduate Diploma in Education in 1973.[2] She earned a master's degree in English as a Second Language at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1975.[2]

Majeks-Walker returned to Freetown, lecturing at Fourah Bay College and AWMS, rising to co-head of the English Department in 1981, before working as a curriculum development officer for English at the Institute of Education in Freetown.[2]

In 1983, she won awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a PhD in distance education at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, England. She earned her PhD in 1986 and worked as an education officer in London until the early 1990s.[2]

Since 1999, Majeks-Walker has been a "consultant and facilitator/trainer with work experience in gender, leadership, advocacy, and politics".[3]

In 2001, Majeks-Walker founded the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone, focused on equality for women.[4]

In July 2013, Majeks-Walker was a speaker at the World Justice Forum IV at The Hague, Netherlands.[5]

In 2015, she was named by the BBC as one of their 100 Women.[1][4]

In January 2017, Majeks-Walker was appointed as the chairperson of the Teaching Hospital Complex Administration board by Sierra Leonean members of parliament of the Appointment and Public Service Committee.[3]

• Women in Sierra Leone

• 50/50 Group Sierra Leone
• 30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)