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Sista Zai Zanda

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About

Sista Zai Zanda (Sista Zai/Achihera) is an Afrofuturistic Storyteller. Sista Zai was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and raised in a large extended family. Achihera is Karanga and now lives as a Black African settler on Kulin Nations.

Amongst career highlights, Achihera is a 2019 recipient of the Neilma Sidney Travel Fund and a recipient of a Melbourne Strategic Scholarship to research for a PhD in Afrofuturisms at the University Of Melbourne.

Past Events

Freed Verse: Poetry and Transformation

Neil Morris, Kaveh Akbar, Sista Zai Zanda, Abdul Hammoud, Hawiine

Past event

5 Nov

Our City of Literature

Parliament: Melbourne, 2008

Alison Croggon, Beth Driscoll, Lili Wilkinson, Lachlann Carter, Christine Gordon, Marian Blythe, Shalini Kunahlan, Sam Cooney, Jax Jacki Brown, Sista Zai Zanda, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Elizabeth Flux, Claire G. Coleman, Justine Hyde, Candy Bowers, Emilie Collyer, Kirsty Murray, Eleanor Jackson, Alia Gabres

Past event

29 Nov

Our City of Literature

Parliament: Melbourne, 2018

Alison Croggon, Beth Driscoll, Christine Gordon, Lili Wilkinson, Lachlann Carter, Marian Blythe, Shalini Kunahlan, Sam Cooney, Jax Jacki Brown, Sista Zai Zanda, Elizabeth Flux, Claire G. Coleman, CB Mako, Justine Hyde, Candy Bowers, Emilie Collyer, Kirsty Murray, Alia Gabres, Eleanor Jackson

Past event

29 Nov

We Are United

Sally Rugg, Sista Zai Zanda, Jean Tong, Amos Roach, Alistair Baldwin, Selina Jenkins, Alex Morris, Tejopala Rawls, Luke Hilakari

Past event

12 Sep

The Show of the Year 2019

Casey Bennetto, Louise Milligan, Paul Kelly, The Merindas, Bill Shorten, Nath Valvo, Laura Jean, Sista Zai Zanda, Alice Bishop, Alice Gorman, Margot Tanjutco, Evelyn Araluen, Brodie Lancaster

Past event

4 Dec

Best of Australian Poems 2022

Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, Bonny Cassidy, Maya Hodge, Jeanine Leane, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Ellen van Neerven, Harry Reid, Samah Sabawi, Panda Wong, Sista Zai Zanda

Past event

28 Feb
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