Mbong Akiy Fokwa Tsafack

Mbong Akiy Fokwa Tsafack is Associate Communications Director for Africa at Human Rights Watch. Mbong is Cameroonian by nationality and started her career as a TV reporter and news anchor in Douala. She moved to Johannesburg in 2008 and worked for 15 years in the environmental justice movement.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she was the Communications Director and then Programme Director with Greenpeace Africa, where she managed communications and led programmatic work in six African countries. Among her greatest accomplishments was helping prevent South Africa’s nine-fold nuclear expansion plan in 2018, and leading multiple projects resulting in the cancellation of fishing licenses to trawlers in West Africa.

Mbong holds a Double Major bachelor's degree in Women and Gender Studies with Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea, and a Post Graduate Honors and Master's Degrees in Corporate Communication from the University of Johannesburg. She is fluent in English, French, Pidgin English and her native Isu. She has a personal blog, mbongaft.com, where she writes about decolonisation and feminist theory.