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In this fourth episode FoLake Saije will have a chat with the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pete Vowles, to amplify the voices of some UK-based Zimbabweans as they share life lessons and career tips.

In our next episode, Folake and Ambassador Pete spoke to Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure, a lawyer and financial services expert who founded her own publishing house four years ago, and has since released more than 30 books by Zimbabwean and Zimbabwean-British authors. Samantha was inspired to start her publishing house Carnelian Heart when she tried without success to get her own first book of poetry published.

Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure is a Zimbabwean publisher, writer, and translator based in Wales. She founded Carnelian Heart Publishing in 2020. She has since published over 30 books by African writers. Folake and Pete read the anthology Turquoise Dreams and Vice Nganga’s Once Upon a Time to prep for this interview; one of the most memorable stories she tells is about having to transcribe one Zimbabwean writer’s whole book from Whatsapp messages.