Solomon Mutswairo, the Zimbabwean novelist and poet remarkable for being the most prolific writer in the Zezuru language, died in Zimbabwe in 2005. His novels include Feso (1956), Mapondera: Soldier of Zimbabwe (1978) and Chaminuka: Prophet Of Zimbabwe (1982). In this article, the mysterious M.T.M and M.C discuss Mutswairo’s life and times:
M.C: Solomon Mutswairo the man, who was he?
M.T.M: He was son of Mutswairo family of Chiweshe and his father was Elija also called Mavhura. He was a soft-spoken man, would always put on a smile and had a high sense of humour. He was, however, very serious when it came to his work.
From his lectures, I discovered that he was a culturalist par excellence, obsessed so much with Shona values and cultural history and this reverberates in all of his Shona and English imaginative and even his academic works.
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