Jackie

Her story

The Art of Multitasking

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Beginnings

Jackline Godfrey Malavanu

She did not go to university simply to collect a qualification. By her own account she went on a mission to find herself, and to redefine what greatness was going to mean for her. That framing is the whole story, because everything that followed came from treating four years as a workshop rather than a queue.

The method was unglamorous. She put God and her studies first and vowed never to miss a class, on the reasoning that catching up later would eat exactly the hours her other work needed. That one rule is what bought her the room to write, to compete, to lead and to organise medical camps without any of it collapsing.

What grew in that room was a poet. Her earliest filmed pieces are about faith, procrastination and mental health, and she writes and performs in both English and Kiswahili rather than picking a lane. By the time Africa's Campus Battle came through, she was ready for it.

She went to the grand finale in Nairobi as the only competitor representing Tanzania and won Season 6 outright with a set built on Zero Hunger, taking home USD 2,000, a fully paid trip to London, and the Anthony Athaide Trophy for her university. In the same stretch she wrote, published and launched The Rollercoaster.

When the 19th MUHAS graduation came, the university asked her to speak for the whole class. She now practises as a pharmacist, hosts weddings internationally as a certified MC, works as a digital marketing strategist, and is still writing.

The set that won Africa's Campus Battle, Nairobi.

Jackline Malavanu as a child, from the family album

Before any of it, from the family album.

In her own words

  • A Child Of God
  • Award winning poet
  • Pharmacist
  • Digital Marketing Strategist
  • Certified MC (Hosts international weddings)
  • Still figuring the rest

Four years, counted off

Eight things she did at once

When she was named valedictorian she wrote down what the four years had actually contained. This is that list.

  1. 01

    Put God and her studies first, and vowed never to miss a class, so that catching up would never eat the hours her other work needed.

  2. 02

    Won awards for public speaking and for leadership.

  3. 03

    Won an art competition that ran across the whole of Africa, as a poet, and as the only representative from her country.

  4. 04

    Wrote, published and launched a book, The Rollercoaster, making her a fully-fledged author.

  5. 05

    Hit some of the biggest poetry stages in the country and beyond, telling stories on health among other subjects.

  6. 06

    Learnt marketing, then started doing it professionally.

  7. 07

    Launched and started her own business.

  8. 08

    Organised and took part in 11 medical camps and 4 medical symposiums, across Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.

Her own conclusion

Faith helped me to try. Just try! Even if I fail, I wouldn't know if I don't try. So I tried, and I urge you to TRY.

On being named MUHAS valedictorian

Timeline

How it happened

2022: First poems on record

2022

First poems on record

Dar es Salaam

The Mission, I Will Do This Tomorrow, Amazing Grace and Mental Breakdown go up on her channel. The subjects are set early: faith, discipline and mental health.

2023: Sauti Ya Mtaa and the Kiswahili work

2023

Sauti Ya Mtaa and the Kiswahili work

Tanzania

Decisions and Majuto Kazeeka are performed for Sauti Ya Mtaa, and Tunasahau and Yesu Rafiki establish that she writes and performs in both languages, not just one.

2024: Wins Africa's Campus Battle, Season 6

2024

Wins Africa's Campus Battle, Season 6

Grand finale, Nairobi

The only competitor representing Tanzania. Her set, built on Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger, took the title, a USD 2,000 prize, a fully paid trip to London, and the Anthony Athaide Trophy for MUHAS.

2025: Publishes The Rollercoaster

2025

Publishes The Rollercoaster

Dar es Salaam

Written, published and launched by her own hand. A therapeutic book about hope and healing, subtitled It takes all or nothing.

2025: Named valedictorian of the 19th MUHAS graduation

2025

Named valedictorian of the 19th MUHAS graduation

Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

Four years she titled The Art of Multitasking: a Bachelor of Pharmacy earned without missing a class, alongside the poetry, the book, the leadership roles and 11 medical camps.

2026: Pharmacist, MC and marketer

2026

Pharmacist, MC and marketer

Tanzania and beyond

Now practising as a pharmacist while hosting international weddings as a certified MC, running digital marketing strategy, and performing on stages and radio across the country.

$2,000

Africa's Campus Battle, Season 6 winner

01

Book written, published and launched

11

Medical camps organised and joined

200K+

Following across social media

What holds it together

A child of God

Faith is the first line of her own bio and it is not decorative. It is where she says the discipline came from, and it runs openly through the work: Yesu Rafiki, Amazing Grace, Heavenly Experience, and a weekly Sabbath greeting to an audience of sixty-seven thousand.

It also shapes how she reads a room. Her arguments tend to end on the same note: you are allowed to try, and failing at something you attempted is a different thing from never finding out.

Hear the faith pieces
Jackline Malavanu on the Joy In The Morning stage

Want her in your room?

Stages, weddings, campuses, campaigns. Tell her what the event is and she will come back to you.