Isabella Matambanadzo

thumb|360x360px|Matambanadzo, in 2018 Isabella Matambanadzo (born 5 June 1973) is a Zimbabwean writer and activist, who is known for being an activist in support of feminism within the African Feminist Forum. Besides that, she has also once served as a member of the United Nations's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa from 2003 to 2007; along with being a co-producer, writer, and editor for a Reuters television show, Africa Journal, from 1999 until 2001. Quotes It's more terrifying to be advocating for the ideal of an open society, you know, when you are in this environment that keeps shutting down, closing, closing--and where you are seen, not as a responsible patriot who questions the state but as a sell-out to Western interests. Mr. Mugabe spent 11 years in jail for Zimbabwe so we can't take away the role he played in our liberation, and we respect that phenomenally. But now he heads a government that is responsible for a lot of repression in the country, and the contradiction and the tension of living in such a society is very, very, very enormous. taken from an interview by NPR, 7 March 2006 One of the greatest days I’ve had was when my mother came home and said today we had medicines, today we had water and power. There’s even the scope for tourism now, and for microfinance to reach the mass market. taken from an article with the New York Times, 20 September 2010 As African cinema increasingly becomes a force to be reckoned with, filmmakers are multiplying efforts to use the big screen to tell stories about politics and history. taken from an article by Reuters (re-published in the Globe and Mail), 25 April 2001 External links