Biography
Musaemura Zimunya was born in 1949 in Mutare, Zimbabwe. He obtained a master's degree in literature at the University of Kent in England. He is the author of several poetry collections in English, including Selected Poems; Country Dawns and City Lights; Kingfisher, Jikinya, and Other Poems; and Thought Tracks. His Shona collections include Chakarira Chindunduma (Poems on the War). Zimunya is also the author of the short story collection Nightshift and the critical work Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe. He taught at the University of Zimbabwe for several years, and he is currently the Director of Black Studies at Virginia Tech University.
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