Shimmer Chinodya

Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist. Chinodya studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government.[when?] He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe and University of Iowa as a Master of Arts in creative writing in 1985. Chinodya won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa region[4] and Strife won Outstanding Fiction Book at the 2007 National Arts Merit Awards. Quotes Do not despair when you are down and under i will crown with my everlasting love. Of course, when we went out we thought our guns could change things overnight. And then we came back to find the whites could still shout at us because they still have the money and the ex-combatants have to scrounge for jobs just like everyone else. ... ' 243 Five years from now the war will be totally forgotten. The truth of it is that those of us who went out to fight will carry the scars for the rest of our lives. We were heroes during the heat of the war, but now we have been left to lick our wounds. You think we consider ourselves heroes? 243 Woe the race, woe the spring. Woe the headwaters, woe the seers, the hearers, woe the utterers. Woe the flowing water, people hustling to death. External links