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.
Jackie
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Meet Jackie
Jackie Malvis
Award-winning poet, author, pharmacist, certified MC.
Winner of Africa's Campus Battle Season 6 and valedictorian of the 19th MUHAS graduation. She writes and performs in English and Kiswahili, hosts weddings internationally, builds marketing strategy, and practises pharmacy.
As seen and heard on
Africa's Campus Battle, Season 6
She went to Nairobi
and won
The only competitor representing Tanzania at the grand finale. Her set was built on Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger.
It took the title, a USD 2,000 prize, a fully paid trip to London, and the Anthony Athaide Trophy for MUHAS.
Watch the poetryThe debut book
The Rollercoaster
It takes all or nothing
Written, published and launched by her own hand, in the middle of a pharmacy degree. A therapeutic book about hope and healing.
“We don't live forever, so we do life now, and we do it right. It takes all or nothing at all.”
The journey
The Art of Multitasking
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
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.
On film
Twenty-eight pieces
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
On the record
Rooms of a thousand,
audiences of millions
Continental competition stages, inter-university carnivals, graduations, health symposiums and weddings. Then the broadcasters came: Clouds Media, TBC, Bongo TZ FM, and Deutsche Welle's Kiswahili service, which profiled her for its Brave Girl series.
When Muhimbili needed one voice to speak for the whole graduating class, they picked hers. English or Kiswahili, chosen to fit the room.
See the interviews$2,000
Africa's Campus Battle, Season 6 winner
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Book written, published and launched
11
Medical camps organised and joined
200K+
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