Asanda sizani biography sample

Sizani on the rooftop of the Dorp Hotel, overlooking the city

After you resigned and co-founded Legacy Creates, you embarked on a whole new journey. How did your quest for a more diverse landscape inspire that move?

Ownership is very important to me, too, so I wanted to create something that would be truly mine and part of my family's legacy.

I wanted to focus on Black women writers and creators, and tell these stories in multidisciplinary ways – film, print, digital, collaborations in art and music. Which wasn't easy, because we don't have the best culture of preserving and archiving.

Asanda Sizani will be Leaving Glamour South Africa after 2 Years …

It's so hard to find civil records and photographs of Black South African creatives and Black women, specifically from the 19th century. If you weren't married or didn't have a prominent husband, you weren't written in history. Even if I only find fragments, they're important to assemble and present as best as we possibly can,