Career
The Zimbabwean journalist took the lead and gave voice to critics of the Zimbawean government and Robert Mugabe in the period that followed 1980 independence. Onesimo was a Zimbabwean by birth from Malawian parents. He spent all of his childhood in Zimbabwe where he also enrolled to become a Catholic priest, a profession he later left before qualifying and worked as a writer of Moto magazine.
He later went to live in Malawi, the country of his fore-fathers.
Being a writer, he was very vocal against the Banda government in Malawi. In 1987 He moved back to Zimbabwe with his family and worked for Mambo Press as the Editor for Moto magazine.
He was editor of Moto from 1987 until his death in a car crash on 27 April 1993. He wanted to organize southern African media workers.
He also worked as writer and Editor of Odini, a Malawian Newspaper until he moved back to Zimbabwe in 1978.