User:Chenjerai Mhondera

Chenjerai Mhondera born Cecil Jones Myontela is a child of mystery. He is a revolutionary and evolutionary writer. He is an author, a poet, a novelist, playwright, actor and song composer. Chenjerai writes largely in English and partly in native Language. He left school at junior age following expulsion and unfair dismissal from school during his first grade at early and junior studies after querying and objecting against letters of the Alphabet and many inconsistencies in the language, English.

His Principal had an unkind treatment and reaction that again resulted in strained relations between him and his guardians.

"I have never seen a philosopher at your age!" Vividly remembers Chenjerai as he narrates his former early grade teacher's reaction to his objections against the letters of the Alphabet and some conventionalities that were not conventional in his world. The case ended in the Principal's office who in his words uttered "I can't keep a mind like you at my institution!" to whom Chenjerai answered, "I cannot also keep people like you in my world!"

Despite the tenderness of age, Chenjerai was distinct in the world and word he lives in.

Following his expulsion from school during his first grade, Chenjerai has had to endure the imposition of conventionality thrust upon him - and buy time by attending to its calls. Between 2007 and 2009, with letter of confirmation and or permission from the then Chipinge District Education Officer, Mrs. Beta, he was allowed to showcase his talent and or passion; performing his plays, dramas, reciting poems and singing in schools and at social public gatherings. He has performed and recited also on political rallies and political gatherings. Nonetheless he has had some backlashes from the polarity of politics in this remote region of Southern Africa. He has been a victim as well of targeted political violence in both rivalry camps; the ruling and main opposition political parties. In August 2017, following his performance and recitation of his own piece in which he identified self as Kimjosh Umoja Ujamaa, at Rutendo Hall in Mufakose, Chenjerai was held in custody of the State Security Personnel and taken for interrogation before he was released, later that day. This is not the first time Chenjerai comes into contact with such unlikelihoods. In his past such happenings are evident as referenced too from HURRICANE TORTURES OF NOW; which seems to be the author's biography of the life he lived in Zimbabwe.

Nonetheless against all such odds and adversity, Chenjerai managed to make tremendous strides. He rose from being a mere contributor to become an Editor in Chief of the Plan International Magazine in Chipinge District under patronage of the then District Coordinator, Tendai Ziyera. In 2013, he was shortlisted an essayist winner of Countrywide Competition (If I were a Minister of ...) His poem; I WANT THAT AFRICA GO in BNAP (2017) received special mention from among editors. In 2018, he is among eight poets in Zimbabwe that made into the Great African Caravan (GAC) - Cape to Cairo route. In 2018, he was auditioned for acting and got a role for a Soap and TV series; Marbles and Matchmore Media Productions. His works appear in over twenty publications; anthologies, online blogs, journals and magazines - both locally and internationally; among the list including all series of Best New African Poets (BNAP), Langa Publishers RCIPG (Cameroon) and Mwanaka Publishers (Zimbabwe), all series of Zimbolicious Poetry, Royal Publishers (USA) and Mwanaka Publishers (Zimbabwe), Better Than Starbucks (USA), Scarlet Anatomy (Nigeria), Mupakwa Werwendo (Zimbabwe), Tribute to Penny, Fortewox Publishers (Zimbabwe). Chenjerai has also been published online ALL POETRY, POETRY SOUP, PoemHunter.com, Parousia Magazine, Enthuse#Magazine, PaZimbabwe blog, Dzidza XYZ and so on. Among his solo books are ''HURRICANE TORTURES OF NOW, Haven and Pearls Media (Zimbabwe), Masasi aChinoz (Chinotimba Jokes), Balukwe Content Publishers (Zimbabwe), Manifesto#Anthology of Peace, (Nigeria), HURRICANE TO THE WORLD (Nigeria), A CASE OF LOVE AND HATE, Mwanaka Publishers (Zimbabwe). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONSCIENCE'' is one of his voluminous collection of quotes (from author self) and probably the World's biggest collection of quotes. The book is history itself. Readers and critics will certainly come to agree that this outdoes all his works, although Chenjerai himself does not agree. He believes every literature and or word art in a book is unique on its own - and is incomparably to the other. The book lives to tell another history.

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In the turn of millennium when the white family he is believed to have been staying with, left the country, citing Mugabe as cause (reference to violent land reform program and farm invasion), he is said to have refused to leave the country - and responded, "I will remain to face Mugabe!" Times then-after have seen him trying to discover and rediscover self. Answering to a interview by a Nigerian interviewer, he says he draws his inspiration from such struggles of man....