Our Story
Built on the belief that African audiences deserve campaigns made for them.
marktn PR was founded to close a gap: global brands entering Africa were launching with strategies designed elsewhere. We build from the ground up — understanding how a market actually talks, gathers and decides what to trust — and use that understanding to produce campaigns with measurable, lasting impact.
Mission
Deliver culturally intelligent campaigns that redefine how brands connect with African audiences.
Vision
A continent where the campaigns representing global brands are built by the people who understand it best.
Philosophy
Perception is not fixed — it is designed. Every campaign is an exercise in deciding, deliberately, how a brand should be seen.
Values
Cultural Fluency
We build for the audience in front of us, not a translated version of somewhere else.
Craft
Every deliverable is produced to a standard that could sit in an international portfolio.
Candor
We tell clients what will work, not what is easiest to say.
Access
Real relationships with the press and platforms that move culture.
The Founder
Onyeka Nwonah
Onyeka founded marktn PR on a simple conviction: African audiences deserve campaigns built for them, not adapted for them. Her work sits at the intersection of Western luxury standards and the cultural fluency required to actually move people here.
- 2018Began in media relations, placing early-stage African fashion brands in international press.
- 2020Led experiential launches for beauty brands entering the West African market.
- 2022Founded marktn PR to build campaigns rooted in cultural intelligence, not imported playbooks.
- 2025Grew marktn PR into a four-country agency working with global luxury houses.