English: Maureen Mumbi Nkandu (born 1st May 1967) in Lusaka, Zambia, is Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Pretoria, South Africa. She an international journalist and communications expert and Zambia’s most celebrated television personality. She began her broadcasting career at an early age of eighteen, a year after completing high school, the youngest ever journalist to work for Zambia Broadcasting Services which later became Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation, ZNBC. She has also had an illustrious career as news and current affairs anchor with the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC World Service Radio in London, and the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg.