Tendai Marima is a Zimbabwean freelance journalist covering sub-Saharan Africa for international media. Her interest in journalism developed through watching how social media provided a platform for Egyptian and Bahraini activists and how the different governments used the control of the internet as one way of clamping down on the spread of information during the citizen uprisings of 2011. Academically, Tendai has a background in African literature and she has done post-doctoral research on the representations of feminism(s) in Africa. She holds qualifications from the University of Cape Town and Goldsmiths (University of London), but instead of being an academic, journalism represents to her an opportunity to witness and document the construction and deconstruction of narratives in real time.