Panashe Chigamudzi

Bio: Panashe Chigumadzi is an essayist and novelist. Her 2015 debut novel, Sweet Medicine, won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award. Her second book, These Bones Will Rise Again, was shortlisted for the 2019 Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. Chigumadzi was the founding editor of Vanguard Magazine, a platform for young black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa. She is also a columnist for the New York Times and a contributing editor at the Johannesburg Review of Books, and her work has been featured in The Guardian, Chimurenga, Africa is A Country, Transition, the Washington Post, Die Ziet and other publications. She is a doctoral candidate in Harvard University’s departments of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature.

Events: Boundless: Africa