Anne Rose Osamba is a Pan-African feminist , A trained journalist ,peacebuilding practitioner, and policy advocate with over a decade of experience advancing peace, governance, democracy, regional integration and social justice across Africa, particularly in conflict-affected contexts in the Horn of Africa. She serves as the Lead Campaigns and Advocacy Officer at Africans Rising, where she leads the organization’s continental advocacy agenda, including the Borderless Africa Campaign and the Reparations Campaign. Through these campaigns, she mobilizes citizens, strengthens grassroots movements, and collaborates with African Union Member States, regional institutions, and civil society partners to advance the ratification and implementation of the African Union Free Movement Protocol (FMP), promote free movement, and drive advocacy for reparative justice across the continent. She also represents East Africa on the African Union WISE Youth, a subsidiary mechanism of the African Union Panel of the Wise, contributing to continental efforts on conflict prevention, mediation, and peacebuilding. 

Previously, through the Uzalendo Afrika Initiative, Anne contributed to governance and democratic reforms by supporting electoral reform processes, election observation missions, civic participation, and community-based early warning and early response systems. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with the African Union, IGAD, UN agencies, governments, grassroots movements, and civil society networks across the continent to strengthen democratic governance, influence public policy, promote youth and women’s leadership, and build resilient Pan-African movements committed to justice, peace, and accountable governance. 

Anne is deeply passionate about Africans reclaiming ownership of their own narratives and stories. Her work centres on amplifying the lived realities, knowledge, and perspectives of African women, believing that their experiences must shape public discourse, influence policy, and advance peace, democracy, economic justice and rights, and more inclusive futures across the continent. Through advocacy, movement building, strategic communications, and narrative change, she continues to champion a Pan-African vision rooted in African agency, feminist leadership, and citizen-driven transformation.