Background
Zimunya was born in Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe), to Mandiera Watch and Kufera Zimunya.
Zimunya was born in Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe), to Mandiera Watch and Kufera Zimunya.
While exiled in Great Britain he studied at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
In 1973 he was expelled from the University of Rhodesia for "disturbing the peace". He got a Bachelor"s degree in 1978 and a Master"s degree in 1979. His Master of Arts dissertation was later published as Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe.
He has been secretary general of the Zimbabwean Writers" Union.
In 1992 he received a Fulbright scholarship to the Pratt Institute in New New York He left Zimbabwe in 1999 for the United States of America and is currently Director of Black Studies at Virginia Technology