Farikanayi was born and raised during Zimbabwe's colonial era after which she pursued undergraduate and postgraduate studies in both USA and the UK where she currently resides with her two sons and two daughters. Now that her children are older, Farikanayi is catching up on dormant and shelved dreams delving into writing more consistently, setting up and running an event-organising business while also pursuing opportunities both in teaching and social work. She is a member of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural church congregation which is a central part of her life and through which her heterog...