Farai Shawn Matiashe

Farai Shawn Matiashe is a journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe, who writes for Aljazeera, Quartz Africa, The World, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Ubuntu Times.

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Coronavirus Forces Funeral Culture Rethink In Zimbabwe

Rusape, June 20 — Shingirai Manyengavana (25) opens a white coffin for people to pay their last respect inside a kitchen hut in Denhere Village, in Rusape, 174 kilometers...

It Is Not Yet Dawn For Zimbabwe’s Informal Economies As Government Extends Lockdown ‘Indefinitely’

Mutare, May 23 — A medium build 35-year old Blaster Chemugaira is seated in a chair just outside the gate of a house he rents in Chikanga, a high-density...

Zimbabwe’s High Internet Data Costs Threaten Online Learning 

Mutare, ZIMBABWE — On a gloomy day in a squatter camp located near Sakubva, a filthy densely populated suburb in Mutare—the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, 14-year old Mirriam...