About Gladys Jakachira

Founder and Executive Director, BeingAfrican 

Author | Public Speaker | Guest Lecturer | Global Cultural Strategist 

Gladys Jakachira is the Founder and Executive Director of BeingAfrican, a pioneering organization at the forefront of preserving, structuring, and transmitting African cultural knowledge for a global generation. She is leading one of the most urgent and under addressed conversations of our time: the restoration of identity in a world where cultural memory is rapidly disappearing. 

Through BeingAfrican, Gladys is building more than programs. She is building infrastructure for identity. Her work captures, documents, and teaches African languages, life cycle traditions, values, and knowledge systems, ensuring they are not lost or diluted, but lived, understood, and carried forward across generations and across borders. 

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As an author, Gladys co created Marriage Vowels, a groundbreaking framework that repositions marriage as a learned, intentional journey rooted in agape love, healing, and self awareness. Her writing challenges silence, confronts inherited dysfunction, and offers structured pathways for transformation within individuals and families. 

As a public speaker, panelist, and guest lecturer, she brings clarity to complex conversations around culture, leadership, diaspora identity, and generational continuity. Her voice is both deeply personal and globally relevant, shaped by her lived experience between Zimbabwe and the United States and her work across 

healthcare, business, and cultural systems. 

What distinguishes Gladys is her ability to translate culture into application. She does not present culture as history. She positions it as a tool for healing, leadership, and sustainable development. Whether in boardrooms, universities, or community spaces, she challenges audiences to move beyond awareness into 

embodiment. 

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Her work is grounded in a powerful truth: when identity is unclear, everything else becomes unstable. When identity is restored, individuals, families, and systems begin to align. 

With a professional background in healthcare, particularly in end of life care, Gladys has witnessed firsthand the cost of disconnection from self, family, and cultural roots. This insight informs her mission and gives her work both urgency and depth. 

Today, she stands at the forefront of a global movement to ensure that African cultural knowledge is not archived or forgotten, but activated as a living system that shapes how people think, lead, relate, and build. Gladys Jakachira is not simply preserving culture. She is restoring identity. And in doing so, she is 

shaping the future.