# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-kamtukule
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:25:03.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-kamtukule"
name: "Vera Kamtukule"
slug: "vera-kamtukule"
description: "Dr. Vera Kamtukule is a Malawian author, activist and politician, who held a ministerial position in the Cabinet of Malawi. Kamtukule was appointed Minister of Tourism on 31 January 2023. Before that, Vera served as the Minister of Labour since 26 January 2022 and as deputy Minister of Labour following the 2020 Malawian presidential election. In 2021 Vera Kamtukule assumed her role as Chair of the SADC Employment and Labour Sector."
tagline: "Malawian writer, activist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vera_Kamtukule_(sq_cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1981-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.65
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.205616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vera-kamtukule-bba21983/"
    handle:    "vera-kamtukule-bba21983"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.verakamtukulewrites.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Kamtukule"
    title: "Vera Kamtukule"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Kamtukule"
    title: "Vera Kamtukule"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Kamtukule"
    title: "Vera Kamtukule"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Kamtukule"
    title: "Vera Kamtukule"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vera_Kamtukule"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108438532"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump