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Filmmaker · Zimbabwe

Olley Maruma

Died in 2010

Olley Tsino Maruma studied in England, at the University of Kent in Canterbury. A filmmaker in independent Zimbabwe, he made two films in the early eighties, then, at the end of the decade, a documentary on the country's literature, composed of interviews with its writers, and a medium-length fiction film about a schoolgirl's pregnancy. In 2007 he published in Harare a partly autobiographical book, set for the most part in Kent. He died in 2010.

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