Speakers:  

Fadzayi Mahere is a lawyer practicing as an advocate at the Harare Bar, having held roles in at commercial law firms, the International Criminal Court, and the United Nations.

Fadzayi has worked at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague and for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She was awarded a Pegasus Fellowship from the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in London, which enabled her to work in various Chambers in London, including Essex Court Chambers and Doughty Street Chambers. In addition to her practice as an advocate, Fadzayi lectures in administrative law and property law at the University of Zimbabwe.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of I Dream America: A Novel, forthcoming in 2023 from W. W. Norton, and House of Stone: A Novel (W. W. Norton, 2019), which won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize, and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Tshuma has lectured on House of Stone at the University of Oxford in England, the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden, and Vassar College in New York, among others. Her Oxford lecture, “Hewing Fiction from History,” was subsequently published in the scholarly journal JSAS, the Journal for Southern African Studies (Vol 47, 2021).

Location: McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall, 3225 University Blvd Dallas, TX 75205