Cynthia Marangwanda

Cynthia Marangwanda is a poet, writer, and cultural heritage activist. She is committed to decolonizing Zimbabwean sacred sites and her work is heavily influenced by ancestral heritage and the experience of African womanhood. It is concerned with the intersections and conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the local and the global, the spiritual and the material. As a spoken word poet she has performed at festivals and events in Zimbabwe, The Netherlands, Lesotho, and South Africa. Her poems have been published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines. Marangwanda lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe.