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Masimba Musodza
Born
Julius Masimba Musodza'

(1976-03-29) March 29, 1976 (age 48)
Harare, Zimbabwe
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, Novelist, Producer

Julius Masimba Musodza (born 29 March 1976) is a Zimbabwean author.

Life

Musodza was born at the cusp of the emergence of the new Zimbabwe, the eldest son of a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Lands. The Musodza family are of the Buja people of Mutoko , north east Zimbabwe. Reading was encouraged in the Musodza household. He was educated at Avondale Primary School, Harare and St Mary Magdalene's High School, Nyanga. After school, he trained as a screenwriter, selling his first screenplay to Media For Development Trust in 2002. Barely a month after, as political and socio-economic uncertainty engulfed Zimbabwe, Musodza relocated to the United Kingdom, where he has lived ever since. He lives in the North East England town of Middlesbrough.[1][2]

Writing

An avid reader as a child, Musodza aspired to be a writer from the time he discovered that it was possible to earn a living from it.[3] His first book was The Man Who Turned Into A Rastafarian, 2006, an anthology of short stories about Rastafarian life in Zimbabwe. This anthology, with the Dread Eye Detective Agency stories have established his reputation as a pioneer in African "Rastafarian Literature".[4][5][6]

Musodza has contributed to StoryTime e-zine, which was founded by Sweden-based Zimbabwean author and publisher, Ivor Hartmann.,[7] Jungle Jim,[8] Bookends, Winter Tales[9][10] and other periodicals.

He is also the author of the first definitive science fiction novel in the Shona language, MunaHacha Maive Nei?[11][12] Masimba Musodza is a Charter Member of the African Speculative Fiction Society.[13]He is one of two Zimbabwean writers who have been featured in Geoff Ryman's 100 African Writers of SF[14]

In addition to two personal blogs, Musodza, an advocate for Zionism, blogs for The Times of Israel.[15]

Publications

  • The Rapture of Pastor Agregate Makunike, Chitungwiza Musha Mukuru: An Anthology From Zimbabwe's Biggest Ghetto Town, Mwanaka Publishing, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, 2020
  • The Witch of Eskale Hall, "Creep" anthology, ed. Jay Chakravarti, Culture Cult Magazine, India, 2019, ISBN 978-1073442454
  • The Interplanetary Water Company, AfroSFv3, 2018, StoryTime, ISBN 978-9198291339
  • MunaHacha Maive Nei? (2nd edition), 2016, Belontos Books, ISBN 978-1-908690-24-1
  • African Roar[16] (Anthology, contributed Yesterday's Dog,[17] a short-story) edited by E. Sigauke/I.W. Hartmann, Lion Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9562422-8-0
  • Shavi Rechikadzi, 2015, Belontos Books, ISBN 978-1-908690-24-1
  • Here be Cannibals, Jungle Jim #23, Afreak Press, Cape Town, 2014
  • When the Trees were Enchanted, Winter Tales, Fox Spirit Books, ISBN 978-1-909348-88-2
  • Chishamiso, Bookends, The Sunday Observer, Kingston, 2012
  • Uriah's Vengeance, Lion Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9558082-5-8
  • The Man who turned into a Rastafarian,2007, Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-84685-537-5
  • The Village Idiot, Trends, Bulawayo, 2006

Acting

Masimba Musodza's professional acting debut was in Edgar Langeveldt's play, No News, which premiered at Theatre-In-The-Park, Harare, in 1997. He also appears in a short film, Vengeance is Mine (2001) by Tawanda Gunda. However, it was not until he settled in Middlesbrough that he began to pursue acting more seriously. He appeared in a short play, To Be Or Not To Be, written by compatriot Dictator Maphosa, as part of the Middlesbrough Council-sponsored Boro Bites short plays (August, 2010). In 2011, he joined the Arc Sketch Group, an extension of the Writers Block North East workshops,[18][19][20] which put on themed sketch shows[21] at the Arc Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees until it disbanded in 2012.

Since then, Masimba Musodza has been a film and TV extra, appearing in such productions as Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (Episode 11), where he plays a Vani warrior.[22] He can also be seen in the festival teaser and UK trailer for Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake.[23] He has also appeared in Make! Craft Britain, which was aired on BBC4 the 9th of June 2016.[24] His most recent appearance has been in the short film I Need help (Ben Stainsby,2018), where he plays 'The Wise Man'[25]

References

  1. ^ [1] Archived June 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "TeesBlogs — The man from Zimbabwe, that writes on Teesside". Teesblogs.tumblr.com. April 29, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Masimba Musodza". Africabookclub.com. November 17, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ "The Alpha and Almost Omega: A Rastafari and Reggae Bibliography". Haraldhammarstrom.ruhosting.nl. Archived from the original on July 25, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  6. ^ "Rastafarianism in local literature". The Standard. February 16, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  7. ^ Musodza's Profile on Story Time ezine Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Masimba Musodza". Jungle Jim. May 8, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  9. ^ "Winter Tales". Foxspirit.co.uk. August 28, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  10. ^ https://omenana.com/afrosff-short-fiction-directory/
  11. ^ "First science fiction novel in Shona". Nehanda Radio. June 7, 2011. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  12. ^ Mark Bould (August 23, 2013). "African Sf: Introduction". Paradoxa. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  13. ^ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3g2E5aSRHnnei1qZVZkOHZWYVU/view?pref=2&pli=1
  14. ^ http://www.tor.com/2016/11/01/100-african-writers-of-sff-part-two-writers-in-the-u-k/#masimba-musodza
  15. ^ Breakstone, David. "Masimba Musodza | The Blogs | The Times of Israel". Blogs.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  16. ^ Article on [Ghanaweb.com]http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=181180
  17. ^ Review of Yesterday's Dog "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ^ https://noonebutabloghead.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/easter-funnies-2-at-stockton-arc/
  19. ^ https://ramshacklecharm.com/tag/arc-sketch-group/
  20. ^ http://allevents.in/stockton-on-tees/arc-sketch-group-easter-funnies-2/393130247370648
  21. ^ http://fansonline.net/onegiantleap/article.php?id=854
  22. ^ http://www.herald.co.zw/science-fiction-shona-novel-print-version/
  23. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/jun/15/i-daniel-blake-trailer-ken-loach-palme-dor-winner-video
  24. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/11fQZ5BtvyD0QlvCGW2Pz4K/embroidered-lampshade-workshop
  25. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8639602/fullcredits
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