Aaron chiundura moyo biography of george

'Aaron Chiundura Moyo (whose real name was Chiundura Moyo before he adopted the name Aaron) who was born in 1950 in Gweru is a prolific novelist, playwright and an actor. Moyo writes exclusively in Shona on the basis that his message is relevant to those who understand his vernacular language.

Background

Moyo went to school when he was 15. He attended Shoe Shine and Connermara Primary Schools.^[1] For his secondary education, he was enrolled at Mambo High School (where he was nicknamed 'two-boy' because he was one of the oldest pupils at the school) after being rejected at St Patrick, Ascot and Bumbirwu schools because of his age.^[2] This influenced him to alter his date of birth to 1954 instead of 1950.^[2] The headmaster at Bumbiru told him to go and get married as he was now old enough to have a family.^[2] After completing high school, Moyo began to work at Clifford Farm and he later relocated to Salisbury (pres