Fareda Banda

Fareda Banda is a Zimbabwean academic. She is currently a professor of law at SOAS University of London.

Biography Fareda Banda was born and raised in Zimbabwe. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe, graduating among the top three.

Career Banda is a former collaborating researcher with UNRISD where she did work on Women's Rights.

Apart from her work teaching at SOAS University of London, Banda also teaches a summer programme at the University of Oxford on women's rights. She has also taught programmes around the world in cities including Harare, Kampala, Onati and Oslo. In 2023, she was chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing, with the other jurors being Edwige-Renée Dro, Kadija George Sesay, Jendella Benson and Warsan Shire, the prize's first all-female judging panel.