Isabella Matambanadzo
Zimbabwe
I learnt feminism in our home and family from my mother and my grandmother.
I am a daughter of the African soil. My home is Zimbabwe. I live with my
mother who is in her 60s. It is one of the daily delights of my present life to
be able to enjoy a very close and loving relationship with my mother and to
harmoniously share a home with her. My mother, through the magical space
of her womb was my first home. I am privileged that she is my present home.
It has not always been that way, and I am grateful that we have been given
this time together.
I am a writer, this comes from the many years in the public and private media.
And, I am a feminist activist, this comes from being in civil society institutions
that had a mission and vision that I shared. I have been very fortunate so far
to have a career path that has given me a space and a platform from which
to organise these talents and gifts into a sense of service that reads as a fairly
reasonable professional resume, because it comes with the generosity of a
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