Malicka Mukubu: a vision, the embodiment of female leadership

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Miss Beaute 1999-2000, a graduate of Saint Patrick College in Business Management and with a BA hons in Business Studies from the University of Sunderland in London, Malicka Mukubu is a Congolese woman entrepreneur, originally from the province of Kwilu, in the territory of Gungu and the Cataract, territory of Songololo in the province of Kongo-Central.

As spokesperson and coordinator of Mandela’s International Day in the DRC since 2016, alongside Monusco and the South African Embassy, Malicka Mukubu fights to perpetuate the values of this icon by promoting women’s rights, by fighting against discrimination and inequalities suffered by the weakest, by helping, through social and charitable actions, the most deprived and by making known the values of true citizenship.

Founding member of the Mutuelle Financière des Femmes Africaines, MUFFA, Malicka Mukubu campaigns through this structure for Congolese women, helping them to regain awareness of their identity, with the aim of restoring their dignity, making them economically autonomous. , and socially responsible, to build a fairer and more equitable society. She also resolved to make Congolese women an engine of social progress in the community. On this, she presents and offers women financial services, with the aim of promoting female entrepreneurship and fighting against poverty and unemployment.

In addition to her entrepreneurial, managerial and philanthropic qualities, this dynamic woman is also a politician. She has been an executive within the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, UDPS, since, 2021. Within the presidential party, she assumes the function of Deputy National Secretary in charge of electoral issues and Representation of women at the head of the Women’s League.

Malicka Mukubu is also President of the Collective Vision Congo, member: Dynafec, National Dynamic of Women Candidates, and member of Mifda, Dynamic Woman of Africa, .

A very committed feminist, Malicka Mukubu has always campaigned for the empowerment of women and their imposition in decision-making bodies.

“Having acquired more experience alongside our leaders and having seen the current political and economic issues in our country, aware of the need that is felt in terms of gender balance in the positions of high responsibilities and political class, it is time and very important that Congolese women be properly represented,” she said in an interview.

Joël Diawa

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