Amos Onyango

Vendor Biography

Amos Onyango is a trained teacher by profession. Currently, he is studying Masters of Arts  in Ethics and Organisation Leadership at Tangaza University College in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and Literature from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Amos is the Founder of Lawy Afrik Technology Limited (Lawy Afrik) an empowering and bold African fashion label with a simple aim; to renew a sense of pride in our African culture by creating a channel for all people to find confidence in expressing who they are.

He is the Founder of Lawy Afrik Foundation (Brief Profile of Lawy Afrik Foundation)  a charitable organization which aims to solve human security and development issues through easy and locally available solutions. Amos is the Managing Director of Kucula Foundation; an organization that brings together and develops exceptional people from all over the world. He is the Youth President for  Destination Imagination in Africa (DI in Africa) a global educational Non-profit Organisation dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators, leaders and creative problem solvers. Amos is also  Unashamedly Ethical Ambassador (UE Ambassador)  in Kenya, a Board Member of 3D Africa Youth Organisation. , a member and patron of the Afrimerge Advisory Council. 

Amos is passionate about the African dream. He is a proponent of a self-sustaining Africa through locally made products and services, ideas and human resources. Amos is a cross cultural communication professional trained at Heinrich Foundation with a keen interest and bias towards Purposeful Communications. He also served as an intern at The Consulting House where he participated in a project on Youth Resilience as funded by IDRC- Canada.

Amos Onyango has authored three (3) books, an abridged personal memoir, Twists and Turns; A Story of Survival,  Cyberbullying; A Crime Against Humanity and Trapped in Waithood; The Predicament of disempowered and disengaged African Youth. The books have opened his life and experiences to the wider African readership space who have appreciated it well so far.

As a young pan-africanist and transformational speaker, he steers a wide-ranging team of young people inclined towards the Pan Africanism agenda, more so, as anchored in AU’s Agenda 2063.

Amos has won many Africa Awards with the most recent being Lion’s Den Competition for young African Entrepreneurs at the Economic Summit 2022 and  Africa Youth  Icon Award 2021. He also leads key human interest initiatives in ten (10) African countries and Four (4) in diaspora. 

Amos Onyango is the immediate former Project Manager of the PLO Lumumba Foundation and Executive Assistant to Prof. PLO-Lumumba.