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Two women who set their award-winning stories in Zimbabwe and Nigeria

Female authors from Nigeria and Zimbabwe talk to Kim Chakanetsa about what success looks like to them.

Two award-winning African writers sit down with Kim Chakanetsa to talk race, gender and getting published in your early 20s.

Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo started writing her first book aged 17, became the youngest woman ever to sign to her publishing house at 19, and released her first novel, The Spider King’s Daughter, at the age of 21. Chibundu is based in London and her second book is called Welcome to Lagos. 

Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born novelist and essayist. Raised in South Africa, she is the author of a novel Sweet Medicine and These Bones Will Rise Again in which she examines Zimbabwean history through the lives of her grandmothers.

(L) Panashe Chigumadzi  (credit: Jodi Bieber) 
(R ) Chibundu Onuzo (credit: Blayke Images)

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