Dianah Chiyangwa – Zimbabwe
Dianah Chiyangwa is a distinguished Zimbabwean-born visual storyteller currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As an award-winning photojournalist, documentary photographer, writer, poet and curator, her work explores crucial societal themes encompassing women’s and children’s issues, human migration, healthcare access, gender justice, climate change and environmental sustainability.
Her impactful storytelling has earned her numerous prestigious accolades and reporting opportunities. Her distinguished fellowships span crucial areas including Digital Identity in Africa, Africa-China Relations and the Climate Crisis—each supported through the Wits Centre for Journalism’s Africa-China Reporting Project. Her credentials extend to fellowships with the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Gender Justice Reporting Project, WanaData/Code for Africa’s Data Journalism initiative, the African Women in Media/UNEP Environmental Reporting programme and the National Press Foundation’s Rare Diseases Reporting Project.
The year 2023 marked her selection as a fellow of the taz Panter Foundation’s Reconnecting African-European Perspectives initiative, alongside receiving a coveted reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center and Oxpeckers for investigative environmental journalism. In 2024, she secured the WWF/VukaNow Khetha Story Project grant, investigating wildlife crime networks. Currently, Dianah serves as an associate at Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism whilst holding a 2025 Norway-Democracy/Code for Africa Fact-Checking Fellowship.
Author: Trevor Davies
I’m Trevor Davies, a senior consultant, creating my own media training deliverables. Forty years of experience with scores of NGOs and hundreds of trainees mentored to successful careers in visual storytelling are amongst the many reasons we should work together. htttps://trevordavies.org
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