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Today, we’re doing life with Krystal Zvisineyi Chindori-Chininga , a remarkable change-maker and advocate for African development. Krystal moved back to Zimbabwe from the US to explore the opportunities on the continent. Enjoy the conversation! Hey Krystal, how are you feeling right now? I feel good.
It’s been a year of challenges but that has engaged a sort of tenacity and drive in me that is very rewarding. So I feel good, tired and excited. Give us a glimpse into your background and any part of your childhood that influenced who you are today I was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe and went to an all-girl catholic school for my entire pre-university education.
I like to mention this because I believe being in an all-girl environment where the smartest person, most athletic person, most influential person, and most mathematically gifted person I knew was a girl, made me never question the capabilities of women. To add to that, my parents’ stories, my mother a black American from rural Tennessee who moved to Zimbabwe for love and rose to be a real estate mogul, and my father a Zimbabwean boy from the village who became a powerful politician, r.