Masimba Musodza

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

Masimba Musodza
Born
Julius Masimba Musodza'

(1976-03-29) March 29, 1976
Harare, Zimbabwe
OccupationScreenwriter, Novelist, Producer

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 the 9th of June 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. 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. https://omenana.com/afrosff-short-fiction-directory/
  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. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3g2E5aSRHnnei1qZVZkOHZWYVU/view?pref=2&pli=1
  11. http://www.tor.com/2016/11/01/100-african-writers-of-sff-part-two-writers-in-the-u-k/#masimba-musodza
  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. https://noonebutabloghead.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/easter-funnies-2-at-stockton-arc/
  16. https://ramshacklecharm.com/tag/arc-sketch-group/
  17. http://allevents.in/stockton-on-tees/arc-sketch-group-easter-funnies-2/393130247370648
  18. http://fansonline.net/onegiantleap/article.php?id=854
  19. http://www.herald.co.zw/science-fiction-shona-novel-print-version/
  20. https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/jun/15/i-daniel-blake-trailer-ken-loach-palme-dor-winner-video
  21. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/11fQZ5BtvyD0QlvCGW2Pz4K/embroidered-lampshade-workshop
  22. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8639602/fullcredits
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