IVETE MARLENE ROSÁRIA MAFUNDZA

 

IVETE MARLENE ROSÁRIA MAFUNDZA (Maputo, Mozambique, 1985)
An entrepreneur in the fields of law and music, Iveth Mafundza works as a lawyer, university professor, rapper and poet. She works with, promotes and sings about women’s human rights. Ever since she joined the Faculty of Law, her interest in defending women has gradually risen. In 2009 she started to include the stories that she would hear in court in her songs, fostering a cultural and musical movement to support the Law on Gender-based violence which efforts were being made to pass at that time. With her music, she tries to encourage more women like herself to sing pop music and to take up professions which are culturally considered as being reserved for men.

I’m a feminist, I chose to be a feminist. And by choosing to be a feminist I chose to fly the flag of women’s rights wherever I happen to be and wherever I want to be.