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Nehanda RadioJuly 2026
What ZimFest says about the Zimbabwean community in Britain
From grassroots beginnings to more than 20,000 attendees, ZimFest has become a mirror of the Zimbabwean diaspora: its growth, its diversity, its debates and its enduring sense of identity.
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Shoppe BlackMay 2025
The Cowboy Carter Economy: Who Profits When Black Culture Moves the Market?
With Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé reasserts authorship over a genre Black artists helped birth and proves, again, that culture is capital. The cultural impact did not stop at the sonic. It came with boots, fringe, braids and an economic boom.
Airbnb.org
Airbnb.org 2023 Impact Report
Collaborated with Airbnb.org to house 2,000 African students displaced by the war in Ukraine.
United Nations & Ukrainian Government
Africans in Ukraine, Humanitarian Needs Overview
Researched and designed a comprehensive intervention for roughly 150 African students stranded by the war. Submitted to the UN and the Ukrainian Government, and supported by grassroots organisations, it facilitated their evacuation.
Nature Human Behaviour
Fleeing Ukraine's borders
A first-hand account of the unequal treatment of refugees, published in a peer-reviewed journal to spotlight systemic gaps in humanitarian response.
Global Citizen
The discrimination African students faced in Ukraine
A documented escape from Kyiv as a Zimbabwean-born student doctor, alongside the work of assisting stranded students.
Policy brief
Third Country Nationals Policy Brief
Examines the roughly 89,000 third-country university students who fled Ukraine, including 1,000 African students who endured ten months of disrupted education, and how miscommunication between states produced inequitable treatment.
Referenced by UNESCO
Africans in Ukraine Impact Report
The data foundation for campaigns to reintegrate African students into Ukrainian universities post-war. Referenced by the press and featured by UNESCO.
Glacie Health with Dr. Rumbi
The Self Advocacy Roadmap
A researched, accessible guide equipping women to advocate for themselves in healthcare settings.
UK Parliament
House of Commons record
The situation of African students displaced from Ukraine, raised in the UK Parliament.
Reuters
Education in limbo for African students who fled Ukraine
Feature reporting drawing on the evacuation and reintegration work.
Brookings
The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows racism has no boundaries
Analysis by Rashawn Ray referencing the treatment of Black students at the border.
Forced Migration Review
How Black African students experienced forced displacement from Ukraine
Peer-reviewed documentation of the experience and the policy failures behind it.
US Mission to the United Nations
Remarks at the 11th Annual Women of Power National Summit
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield's remarks to the Black Women's Roundtable referencing the crisis.
Xi, 2023, academic journal
Compassion and National Interest
Race, culture and politics behind the reception of refugees of the Ukraine war, citing this account.
Balogun, 2023
Refugees Separated by the Global Color Line
Europeanness, whiteness and sameness in the reception of refugees, citing this work.
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