By caven masuku
The City of progress Gweru is blessed with the Arts and entertainment activities, authors and story creators of stature in English Literature such as Ignatius Musonza.
Musonza is a full time author who started writing in 1997, and has vast experience in English Literature. According to Aristotle; “Literature is a psychological and emotional medicine that cleanses people of their evil thoughts and emotions. To him Literature is true, serious and useful as it sometimes portrays the decay of morals order.
Every progeny on a transient fashion stage need literature to elevate humanity and Musonza’s work of art is doing just that to the children who are his target audience.
Musonza, submitted his first manuscript to the Literature Bureau in 1976, while in primary School. Now he has published nine titles to his name and eight were published by Macmillan Education in UK, and other one was published by Editions Bakame (Switzerland/Rwanda. He is the author of Don’t Play in The Road (2000), Ikes plant (2003), The Great Writer (2003), Wall of Water (2003), The Hidden Spring (2005), stories from east and west et. Al (2005), Tanaka’s father (2004), Tonde (2005), Tamari of Tamarinda (2005).
Don’t Play On The Road is a self explanatory title. It’s gender sensitive and falls in a special category of books on health and Safety for beginners. It is a warning title to people of all age. It’s a book of few words and attractive educational big pictures.
Ike’s Plant is a book that awakens environmental and plants awareness in children. A call to make them look around, appreciate and care for what they see.
The Great Writer is a brief look into the hardship and experiences, faced by and leading to the success of a child writer. It carries lessons on the bicycle physical features and the relationship between the police and the public.
Wall of water arouses children to alertness for disaster, encourages, attentiveness to instruction in the face of one. Musonza has scooped several awards in his short stint at writing. He has been twice a nominee of the National Arts Merit Awards (2000) and (2005). He has been a facilitator at Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) workshop 2004 and a ZBCD Resource person at the Children’s tent in 2001.
He also facilitated the Budding writers Association of Zimbabwe (BWAZ) writing workshop 2005. Musonza is planning to write more books, more travel, and more research and hopefully make lots of money too.
He is married to Winnie Hilda and has two daughters Tsisti and Whitney.
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