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The NDINI Podcast

May 27, 2018

Hawa Essuman is a Ghanian-born award-winning filmmaker currently based in Kenya.  Her most recent film Silas, which is a documentary about Liberian environmental activist Silas Siakor, recently opened at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.  Since then it has gone on to screen at film festivals around...


May 20, 2018

"Doubting yourself – you’ve already killed your dream before you’ve even begun"

Farai Simoyi is an award-winning designer, who has worked with big name brands like Beyonce's 'House of Dereon', RocaWear, Nicki Minaj and Rachel Roy.  She now has her own eponymous label - Farai.  

Farai started making clothes for fun...


May 13, 2018

Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni has achieved the seemingly impossible.  Her first Directorial feature film ‘I am not a witch’, which she also wrote, made it’s debut at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. 

The film, which is a satire about a nine-year-old girl accused of witchcraft in Zambia, has gone on to play...


May 6, 2018

She's a Solicitor, Speaker, Writer and Social Activist.  

Spurred by seeing the mistreatment of women in her native Zimbabwe, Rumbi Bvunzawabaya was inspired to become a lawyer so she could address some of the injustice she saw growing up.  But due to the economic and political situation in Zimbabwe at that time, she...