Zimbabwe: Danai Gurira in Forbes Top 20

20 February 2013

Danai Gurira, a Zimbabwean actress and writer who lives in the United States, is among three young Zimbabwean women who made it into the 2012 20 powerful young women in Africa by Forbes. The other two are Jacqueline Chimhanzi, a local corporate executive and Maud Chifamba, a 14-year-old year University Accounting student, who made history last year when she became the youngest student (male or female) in Zimbabwe and possibly the whole of Southern Africa to enrol at university.

Gurira's nomination adds yet another feather to her cap shortly after being nominated United States hottest new actress for featuring in a television drama series, "The Walking Dead" for her role as a zombie killer Michonne.

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