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Solomon Mutswairo

Died in 2005

Solomon Mutswairo was born on 26 April 1924 in Zawu, in the Mazowe district, studied at Adams College and then at the University of Fort Hare, in South Africa, taught at Goromonzi and from 1955 ran the Baptist mission school at Sanyati. A Fulbright scholar in 1960, he wrote a doctoral thesis in the United States at Howard University and returned in 1981. The first writer in residence at the University of Zimbabwe and chairman of the National Arts Council, he wrote the words of the national anthem and died in November 2005.

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