12 Facts About Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe Chigumadzi was born on 1991 and is a Zimbabwean-born journalist, essayist and novelist, who was raised in South Africa.

Panashe Chigumadzi has published her writing in a variety of media.

Panashe Chigumadzi has been a columnist for The Guardian, Die Zeit, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Review of Books and Chimurenga.

Panashe Chigumadzi was a founder of VANGUARD, a magazine designed to give space to young, black South African women interested in how queer identities, pan-Africanism and Black Consciousness intersect.

At the start of her career, Panashe Chigumadzi worked as a reporter for CNBC Africa.

Panashe Chigumadzi has written on the complexities of identity dismantling the notion of a colourblind, post-Apartheid South Africa, through a reclamation of the term "coconut".

Panashe Chigumadzi is outspoken about the need for decolonisation at national and at personal levels.

Panashe Chigumadzi argued that, yes, in a continent with such different experiences of racialisation under colonialism, it did.

In 2015, Panashe Chigumadzi was Programme Curator of the first Abantu Book Festival.

Panashe Chigumadzi is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

Panashe Chigumadzi's work has been studied widely, particularly within post-colonial studies.

Panashe Chigumadzi's writing on the use of charms in Sweet Medicine led to further studies on healthcare and traditional practices in Zimbabwe.