About Fortune
Fortune Massie Tazvivinga was born on the 22nd of March 1989 in Bulawayo. Her love for storytelling, arts, music, and foreign cultures began at a very early age.
She attended Mzilikazi High School and later studied Literature in English, IsiNdebele, and History. In 2009, she travelled to Germany and Austria as part of an au pair cultural exchange, which shaped her entrepreneurial thinking and intercultural skills.
Fortune collects and distributes art from different parts of Zimbabwe in a small co-rental shop called Tabermmori at Tshaka's Den in Victoria Falls Zimbabwe.
Upon returning to Zimbabwe in 2011, she launched her professional filmmaking career with the feature film "Inhlanhla". In 2013, her children's book "The River God uNyami Nyami" won a National Arts Merit Award (NAMA).
Today, she is a Mandela Washington Fellow (YALI 2016) and continues to work across multiple creative disciplines, merging language learning, arts, and tourism through her various initiatives.