Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe Chigumadzil (born 1991) is a Zimbabwean-born journalist, essayist and novelist, who was raised in South Africa.She has published her writing in a variety of media. She has been a columnist for The Guardian.

Quotes

• All my work as a writer has to do specifically with the black condition, the black woman’s condition and theorising about and speaking to black liberation; black revolution.
  • An Interview with Panashe Chigumadzi,(June 16, 2016)

• There's way hipper, trendier shit happening in spaces unsafe for lily-white skinned people's privilege.
  • A podcast interview with panashe,(September 14,2016)

• As a black woman, black people, you’re not supposed to crumble.
  • An interview with Panashe,(November 2016)

• We all know what a coconut is, don’t we? It’s a person who is “black on the outside” but “white on the inside.
  • Why I call myself a 'coconut' to claim my place in post-apartheid South Africa,(August 24, 2015)

Quotes about person/work

• The past, present, and future, all wrapped into one.
  • Nanjala who described Chigumzdizi's works,(August 21,2019)

External links

• Panashe Chigumadzi website