# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sisonke-msimang
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:05:50.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sisonke-msimang"
name: "Sisonke Msimang"
slug: "sisonke-msimang"
description: "Sisonke Msimang is a South African-Australian writer, activist, and political analyst based in Perth, Western Australia, whose focus is on race, gender, and politics. She is known for her memoir Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018), a biography of anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. She was born in exile in Zambia, as her father, Mavuso Msimang, was a member of uMkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress during its struggle against apartheid in South Africa."
tagline: "South African writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sisonke_Msimang_-_TEDxSoweto_2014_-_arm_raised_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.083838666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.sisonkemsimang.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisonke_Msimang"
    title: "Sisonke Msimang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisonke_Msimang"
    title: "Sisonke Msimang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisonke_Msimang"
    title: "Sisonke Msimang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sisonke_Msimang"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisonke_Msimang"
    title: "Sisonke Msimang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sisonke_Msimang"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72181398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump