| Nemata Majeks-Walker | |
| Birth Place: | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Education: | Magburaka Secondary School for Girls Annie Walsh Memorial School |
| Alma Mater: | Fourah Bay College University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Surrey |
| Occupation: | Women's rights activist |
Nemata Majeks-Walker (born 1946/1947) is a Sierra Leonean women's rights activist.
Majeks-Walker was born to an Aku Mohammedan family in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.[1] She was an only child. Her mother died when she was only five years old. She was raised by her great-grandmother and other family members.[1]
She was educated at the Methodist Girls' School, Magburaka Secondary School for Girls in Mathora, and Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown.[1]
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.[1] She earned a master's degree in English as a Second Language at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1975.[1]
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.[1]
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.[1]
Since 1999, Majeks-Walker has been a "consultant and facilitator/trainer with work experience in gender, leadership, advocacy, and politics".[2]
In 2001, Majeks-Walker founded the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone, focused on equality for women.[3]
In July 2013, Majeks-Walker was a speaker at the World Justice Forum IV at The Hague, Netherlands.[4]
In 2015, she was named by the BBC as one of their 100 Women.[5] [3]
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.[2]