[1] Raised by her grandmother in Ndola, Nguleka attended Fatima Girls' Secondary School.

[2] She studied veterinary science at the University of Zambia, and gained an international diploma in poultry handling from Barneveld college in the Netherlands.

[3] Nguleka was a small farmer who specialized in poultry and goats, and in treating diseases in these animals.

[3] She became the first female president of the Zambia National Farmers' Union (ZNFU) upon her election in 2013.

[5] Upon her election to the presidency of the World Farmers' Organisation (WFO) in 2015,[6] after appointment as acting president in October 2014,[7][8] she stated: "For too long the role of the farmer was taken for granted, almost as if we were vending machines for food, called to respond to that role, who carry out with joy the task of feeding the planet in a compulsory and annihilating way, without margins of profits.