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Emilain Makonda
Emilian Nkono Makonda (born October 2, 1987) is a Tanzanian computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is best known as one of two co-founders of the video site kilaDAY. As of April 2014, Makonda is the Vice President and Chief Operational Officer of kiladay. Emilian Makonda receives a one-shilling salary as COO of kiladay.

Together with his college classmate Michael Mgeta Sitta, Makonda launched kiladay from his computer at home after being rejected to several interviews by being possessed by "imaginary" ideas. In April 2013, on the second attempt to launch kiladay (after the first attempt left them broke a year before), the site receive over 23,000 hits on the first two days and limited budget.

Early life
Makonda was born in 1987 in Morogoro, Tanzania. He is the son of retired teachers Martin Makonda and Juliana Emily. He and his two brothers, Nobert and Suitbert were brought up in Morogoro, Shinyanga and Tabora. Makonda was raised and still is Catholic.

At Mwenge Primary School, Makonda excelled in studies. He transferred to Kitete Primary School in Standard V, VI and VII where he was excellent in Math and Science. Makonda managed to study Information and Communication Technology Management in Mzumbe University, he graduated in 2011 and was unemployed for the most of his time because he was afraid of "working and benefit others"

Early Life
Makonda began using computers in Standard V and began writing software in secondary school by using their "WINDOWS 95" home computer. His mother bought the computer for the family and although he was young after some time spending time with it he became a teacher for others using it, eventually it became his.

College years
At Mzumbe University, Makonda had a reputation of not attending most of the classes and according to him "classed were a way of getting dormant knowledge, that would only change your life and not others", He spent most of time studying programming languages. On his third year he created a Customer Relationship program that was aiming to promote company-customer relationship but was criticized for lacking use. A short time later, he created a Point of Sale program that let shops keep records of their sales. And also he crated a centralized student information system that let schools perform their daily school activities in it and it has parent portal where parents would be able to see the performance and behavior of their particular students

Career
Makonda launched kiladay for the first time in December 2012 and on March 2013 the site was down because they failed to pay for their hosting. On January 2014 the site was up again but was still under-construction until when it was officially launced on April 2014 and received over 23,000 hits on the first 48 hours and all that was under and limited budget, They used their Facebook page to advertise the site, and the page itself had only over 3900 users.