Zaa Nkweta is a Cameroonian-Canadian journalist, actor and television presenter born in the United Kingdom and raised in Canada.
He is also a graduate of Ashbury College in Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, and attended the National Theatre School of Canada, training under Pierre Lefevre and Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
Nkweta was an anchorman and field reporter for South Africa's highly acclaimed investigative TV program Carte Blanche.
Nkweta has interviewed the president of Equatorial Guinea, the chairman of De Beers Mines; Nicky Oppenheimer, and the Secretary General of the African Union (2001–2002) Amara Essy.
He has an interest in the arts, having interviewed several notable actors such as Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Will Smith and singer Shania Twain.