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is a Professor of Law at SOAS, University of London. She is the Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2023. She researches and writes on human rights focusing on women and, has more recently written a book on the interface between law and literature focusing on migration.
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is a Professor of Law at SOAS, University of London. She is the Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2023. She researches and writes on human rights focusing on women and, has more recently written a book on the interface between law and literature focusing on migration.
FAREDA BANDA
OCTOBER 6 2023
FAREDA BANDA•OCTOBER 6 2023
Zimbabwean academic and author of African Migration, Human Rights and Literature, Fareda Banda, wanted her book to explore the refugee/migration issue from the perspective of one whose people were being dehumanized: ‘I was also curious about whether literature could reach places or invoke emotions such as empathy, that law and policy did not seem to be doing.’