Venencia Paidamoyo Nyambuya is a PhD student in the Department of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Howard college campus. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Media and Cultural studies from the University of KwaZulu Natal and an Honours degree from Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. She has worked as a journalist in one of Zimbabwe’s biggest media houses Zimpapers. With her background as a Journalist she has developed passion working with people and trying to understand the societies they live in, and South Africa has afforded her the opportunity to do so at a huge scale, because it is apparently a hub of all African nations.

Having lived in South Africa for a while, when Xenophobia was rife, her research interests are mainly based on issues affecting Africa. Her masters research focused on the lived experiences of victims of Xenophobia in Durban in 2015.Through this research she is writing a lot of papers that are on the verge of publication. Her research interests have led her to embark on studies that seek to address issues of human scale suffering in Africa. She is currently working as a lecturer in the same department.