Natalie Sindile Nyathi
Today Zim GBC News speaks to the Poetic Queen Chidadiso Francisca Mbazo aka Chichie
Chichie ~The Poetic Queen is a 20-year-old young lady from Bulawayo. She is an arts journalist, professional model, spoken word artist, podcaster, Events host, and public speaker. She is also a feminist, disability rights activist, and SRHR defender as well as a peer educator.
Currently, she’s the Media and Communications Officer at Youth for Innovation Trust, Head writer at Ibrah Magazine, a media reporter at the Bulawayo Arts News Online, a participant in the Amplifying Girls Voices Through Digital Arts project, a peer educator and representative for youths with disabilities in the YPNSRHHA under the National Aids Council and a model signed under Fervid Model Management. Chichie is also a first-year sociology student at Lupane State University as well as the reigning Royal Miss Vithikazi Queen 2022.
MY FIRST CHILDHOOD MEMORY…
This one is a bit tough. when l was four, I went with my mum to church and there were some kids on stage singing and reciting verses and I told her that I was going to do that one day.
Three years later, I did.
MY FIRST CHILDHOOD IDOL..
It’s J.K Rowling. She wrote the Harry Potter books. I loved her writing style and I was a die-hard Harry Potter fan, and still am!
MY FIRST MUSIC HERO…
It’s Alicia Keys, I fell in love with her song ‘Girl on Fire’. I felt like it affirmed the kinda woman I wanted to be then. It’s still one of my favorites to date.
MY FIRST TIME AS AN ACTIVIST…
I was eleven and I was telling my mum how unfair it was that my younger brothers didn’t do the dishes. That’s where activism started (Kkkk)
MY FIRST SCHOOL…
It’s Mawaba Primary in Lobengula West, Bulawayo…
MY FIRST BEST FRIEND…
It was a girl called Tanya. She used to stay in our neighborhood when I was 4 years old.
MY FIRST HEARTBREAK…
It’s Last year around October. I’m not going to share details though😂(Kk seems like it’s a complicated one as well so we gonna leave it like that Kk)
FIRST TIME CRYING AS AN ADULT…
I genuinely don’t remember.
MY FIRST PODCAST…
That was in 2021 when I hosted one of our podcasts as Amplifying Girls Voices Through Digital Arts.
MY FIRST PET…
Unfortunately, l never had one.
MY FIRST TIME MODELING…
It was when l was in form three (2018)in the Miss Sizane High pageant. I was crowned the First Princess.
MY FIRST TIME HOSTING A SHOW…
January 2020 when I co-hosted our teen’s Sunday at church.
MY FIRST JOB…
It’s working as a freelance writer at Ibrah Magazine.
ANY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?
All I can say is, stay tuned. There are several surprise projects I’m working on.
Zim GBC News 2023©