Kanengoni, Alexander

ALEXANDER KANENGONI, born 1951. Trained as a teacher, he taught briefly before going to join the liberation struggle in 1974. After Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, he went to the University of Zimbabwe and majored in English literature. In 1983 he joined the Ministry of Education and Culture as project officer responsible for the education of ex-combatants and refugees. In 1988 he joined the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Service and worked there until 2002, when he became a farmer and a part-time newspaper editor. Alexander’s previously published work includes the novels: Vicious Circle (1983), When the Rainbird Cries (1988) Echoing Silences (1997), a collection of short stories, Effortless Tears (1993) and Writing Still (2003).