Bio

Dr Rosemary Chikafa-Chipiro is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Creative Media and Communication at the University of Zimbabwe. She is also a writer and a poet. She holds a PhD in Film and English Literature from the University of Zimbabwe. She has published on gender, media, and politics, film and literature, with a primary focus on representations of black women, southern feminist solidarities, alternative public spheres, and postcolonial identities. She has held catalyst fellowships at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, through which she critiqued the African feminist movement in Zimbabwe through networks with gender organisations working on GBV and child marriages. She has recently been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA Trust), which curates the International Images Film Festival for Women in Zimbabwe, among other creative economy initiatives.