Masimba Musodza

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Masimba Musodza
Born
Julius Masimba Musodza'

(1976-03-29) March 29, 1976 (age 45)
Harare, Zimbabwe
OccupationScreenwriter, 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]

Musodza has contributed to StoryTime e-zine, which was founded by Sweden-based Zimbabwean author and publisher, Ivor Hartmann.,[4] Jungle Jim,[5] Bookends, Winter Tales[6][7] and other periodicals.

He is also the author of the first definitive science fiction novel in the Shona language, MunaHacha Maive Nei?[8][9] Masimba Musodza is a Charter Member of the African Speculative Fiction Society.[10]He is one of two Zimbabwean writers who have been featured in Geoff Ryman's 100 African Writers of SF[11]

In addition to two personal blogs, Musodza, an advocate for Zionism, blogs for The Times of Israel.[12]

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[13] (Anthology, contributed Yesterday's Dog,[14] 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 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,[15][16][17] which put on themed sketch shows[18] 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.[19] He can also be seen in the festival teaser and UK trailer for Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake.[20] He has also appeared in Make! Craft Britain, which was aired on BBC4 on June 9, 2016.[21] His most recent appearance has been in the short film I Need help (Ben Stainsby, 2018), where he plays 'The Wise Man'[22]

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. ^ Musodza's Profile on Story Time ezine Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Masimba Musodza". Jungle Jim. May 8, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  6. ^ "Winter Tales". Foxspirit.co.uk. August 28, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  7. ^ "Read More African Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Fiction Stories".
  8. ^ "First science fiction novel in Shona". Nehanda Radio. June 7, 2011. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  9. ^ Mark Bould (August 23, 2013). "African Sf: Introduction". Paradoxa. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  10. ^ "ASFS_CharterMembers_Aug2016.PDF".
  11. ^ "100 African Writers of SFF — Part Two: Writers in the U.K." November 2016.
  12. ^ Breakstone, David. "Masimba Musodza | The Blogs | The Times of Israel". Blogs.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  13. ^ Article on [Ghanaweb.com]http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=181180
  14. ^ Review of Yesterday's Dog "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ "Easter Funnies 2 at Stockton Arc". March 28, 2012.
  16. ^ "Arc sketch group".
  17. ^ "Easter 2021 in Stockton-on-Tees, EN | Annual Easter Egg Hunt & Things to do in Stockton-on-Tees, EN".
  18. ^ http://fansonline.net/onegiantleap/article.php?id=854
  19. ^ "Science fiction Shona novel print version".
  20. ^ "I, Daniel Blake: The trailer for Ken Loach's Palme d'Or-winner – video". The Guardian. June 15, 2016.
  21. ^ "BBC Four - MAKE! Craft Britain, Special - Embroidered Lampshade Workshop".
  22. ^ "I Need Help (2018) - IMDb".

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