Matambanadzo, Isabella
ISABELLA MATAMBANADZO is a Zimbabwean feminist activist. She has a contribution in Township Girls: The Cross Over Generation (2018) and to African Sexualities: a Reader (Pambazuka Press, 2012), and Beyond Beijing: Strategies and Visions Towards Women’s Equality (SADC Press Trust, 1996) amongst other works. She was coeditor with Professor Rudo Gaidzanwa of A Beautiful Strength – A Journal of 80 years of Women’s Rights Movements and Activism in Zimbabwe since 1936 (Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe, 2017). She contributed a story to the anthologies Writing Free (Weaver Press, 2011) and Writing Mystery and Mayhem (Weaver Press, 2015), and most recently ‘A Very Recent Tale’ in New Daughters of Africa (Harper Collins, 2019).
In 2006-07, Bella was named one of eleven women on the frontline of defending human rights by the global human rights watchdog Amnesty International for her work with Zimbabwe’s Radio Voice of the People (VOP). She has worked in 36 countries on the African continent in print media, radio journalism, and television news production.
Bella is a Dean’s list Summa cum Laude Graduate of the Humanities Faculty of Rhodes University.
Her favorite color is purple. And she enjoys gardening.