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Mashingaidze Gomo is a Zimbabwean novelist who has found fame in writing about Africanism and the struggle for independence. His book "Fine Madness" the first, Gomo explains how Africa has been turned into a battle ground to test the western made weapons.
He traces how the African have been taught to destroy their economies by destroying the very infrastructure that should be the impetus of national development.
Born in Highfield in 1964, Gomo whose parents both hailed from Chihota, spent the first 10 years of his life in his rural home. He attended Gukuta Primary school from Grade One to Grade Four before moving to Zuvarabuda Primary School in Glen Norah in Harare for Grade Five. He later moved to Ruvheneko Primary School where he finished his primary education.
He moved to Highfield Community School for his junior secondary education and to Kwenda High School in Hwedza for his Ordinary level studies.
"I was like a nomad then going from one school to the other and I came back to the then Salisbury for my Advanced level studies at Highfield 1 High.
"These years have a certain influence on my life. As you are aware every school you attend has its own rules and regulations. These coupled with the differences in environments can shape who you are. The different schools I attended thus helped build in me a more complex character," he said.
His father was a driver at Lobels Bakeries and Gomo is the fourth in a family of eight.
Gomo says he owes everything he has achieved to his mother arguing that she had a great influence in his social life and even education.
Gomo's mother, a peasant farmer,...