Zahra Moloo

I am a Kenyan-Canadian documentary filmmaker, researcher and PhD candidate in Human Geography. My research focuses on biodiversity conservation, violence, capitalism and the postcolonial state in Africa, jointly supervised by Emily Gilbert and Kanishka Goonewardena. I received a SSHRC grant for my PhD research. Previously, I worked as an investigative journalist. My work has appeared in Al Jazeera, BBC Focus on Africa magazine, the Jacobin, Project Syndicate, Africa is a Country, the New Humanitarian and IPS News. I directed and produced documentaries for CCTV’s Faces of Africa series and for CBC’s Emmy-nominated documentary series, "Interrupt this Program." I directed "Home No More," a documentary about Islamophobia in Quebec following the 2017 shooting in a mosque, and "A Question of Consent," an investigation into genetically modified mosquitoes in Burkina Faso. I have served on the juries for the Canadian Screen Awards, the Cuban Hat, and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and was a recipient of Hot Docs’s Corus Diverse Voices fellowship and the Talent Lab of RIDM festival. I also work with the ETC Group, an organization which monitors the impact of emerging technologies and corporate strategies on biodiversity, agriculture and human rights.

Publications

Moloo, Z. (2023). Forthcoming. "Fighting Extinction Technology: the Story of a Movement." In Contesting Colonial Capital: Indigenous, Peasant and Migrant Labor Political Pedagogies in
the Americas, Africa and Asia. (Ed Dip Kapoor). Routledge.

Moloo, Z., & Mittal, A. (2021). Stealth Game: “Community” Conservancies Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya. The Oakland Institute.

Moloo, Z., & Thomas, J. (2020). Driven to Exterminate: How Bill Gates Brought Gene Drive Extinction Technology into the World. Navdanya International.

Moloo, Z. (2019). The crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front – review. Africa is a Country.

Moloo, Z. (2017). "All that Glitters: Neoliberal Violence, Small-Scale Mining and Gold Extraction in Northern Tanzania." In Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession. (Ed Dip Kapoor). Zed Books.