Conversations with Writers

In an earlier interview , Zimbabwean writer Masimba Musodza talked about the factors that led him to start writing. His books include The Man who turned into a Rastafarian (Diggory Press, 2007), Uriah’s Vengeance (Lion Press Ltd, 2009) and the Shona science fiction novel, MunaHacha Maive Nei? (Kindle Edition, 2011). His work has also been featured in African Roar (Storytime, 2010), an anthology of contemporary African fiction. Masimba Musodza talks about his latest novel: Do you write everyday? Yep! Normally I have these ideas swirling in my head. Then, by around midnight, they have taken shape and I just start working. Or, if I have a client for a script, I just try and meet the deadline! Usually, I have the story or the chapter all written in my head when I sit down at my PC. I will often have about three windows minimised and I just work on the one that wants to be worked on. I know it is the popular perception of Rastafarians, but I would like to state categor...

Zimbabwean screenwriter and author, Julius Masimba Musodza was born in 1976 and attended Avondale Primary School in Harare, and St Mary Magdalene’s High School in Nyanga. Some of his early work appeared in school magazines as well as in the young people's newspaper, The New Generation . After high school, Musodza majored in Screenwriting and Directing at the Vision Valley Film Video & Television Institute. He also studied with Edgar Langeveldt’s Nexus Talent Agency; the African Script Development Fund; the Zimbabwe International Film Festival and the Raindance Institute. He sold his first screenplay in 2002 and is now working to put some of his own writing to screen as a producer/director. In this interview, Masimba Musodza talks about his writing. When did you start writing? I seem to have taught myself to read and write before I started school and that scared the hell out of my folks! I tried to get a novel published in the Pacesetters series, but that was when...