Stanley Nyamfukudza is a Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

an writer.

He was born in Wedza

Wedza

Wedza is a district in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. It is located about south of Marondera, and south of Harare. The Mbire people of the Soko Clan were the early inhabitants who mined iron in the Hwedza hills which means "a place of wealth". A village was established in 1910...

, Zimbabwe. In 1973, he was ejected from Salisbury University

Salisbury University

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 for participation in student riots against racism on the campus. From there, he moved to England where he was awarded a scholarship to study literature at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

and completed a degree in English. He returned to an independent Zimbabwe in 1980.

Nyamfukudza has become one of Zimbabwe's longest established writers. His 1980 work The Non-believer's Journey focuses on the war of liberation against colonialism. Since then, he has published two collections of short stories: Aftermaths in 1980 and If God was a Woman in 1991. He presented the plenary speech titled, Reflections on Zimbabwe’s intellectual development, at the 2004 Nordic Africa Institute conference.