Samuel Chimsoro

Samuel Chimsoro was born on 13 February 1949 in Mrewa, in Mashonaland East. A pupil at Nyatsime College, the first privately run Black secondary school in the country, he was encouraged to write there by a teacher. Trained as a laboratory technician, he worked for the state on radiation detection, then at the National University of Science and Technology. He wrote in English and in Shona, poems, a novel and stories, and died on 6 July 2016 in the village of Umgugu, in Zhombe.

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• PoetrySmoke and FlamesSamuel Chimsoro · 1978Literature