[1] Flower Ezekiel Msuya was born in 1959 in Kifula[2] (Ugweno), a division of Mwanga District in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania.

[2] Since 2017 Msuya has been part of a team implementing the GlobalSeaweedSTAR project to safeguard the future of seaweed aquaculture against the effects of climate change in countries such as Tanzania, Philippines and Malaysia.

[7] The need for the Tanzanian industry to develop resilience towards environmental impacts has been a key focus area for her.

[2] Msuya is the founder and chairperson of the Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative (ZaSCI).

As part of this initiative, she has contributed to producing seaweed products[11] including powder, cosmetics and foods.