hi readers
I am Ignatius Musonza, an author, mentor, creative content creator and consultant. I have published feature articles, short stories and poetry in different magazines, journals and set books.
Welcome to my first post, as I type I have not yet named this piece because its from the heart..., eish... wait a minute I think I've just got it... the title I mean, from one of my favourite songs from the late Marvin Gaye.
To get better acquainted I think I had better start from my personality. I was born arts-struck somehow, and curiously loved challenges. From a tender age I remember not being a friends' person but more of a loner mostly with the community inside my head for company, hence clay, cardboard, stick or wire figurines were my thing before the reading bug struck. I grew up quite good at pencil drawing and won my school several art competitions. The reading bug bit me unexpectedly around grade 3 when I discovered Ladybird Write and complete books, then I moved on to upper class stories. I even won a prize of 5 novels, a bible and dictionary for, I quote' having read the largest number of library books in the whole school' end of quote. The rest is history that I will mix with other life observations here as we discuss.
That 'love of challenges' character also saw me in a lot of adventures and the tell tale scars still give testimony of that phase of my life. I was always curious and eager to try something new. That part of me led to very interesting exposure of another side of me leading to a ... Mmm, I don't know if spiral is the right word here. Ok back to my story. Curiosity led me to approach my first Karate trainer/coach/sensei who was searching for a sparing partner. I cannot remember the full circumstance but it led to him meeting me and eventually developing a strong teacher student relationship and my grasping the Goju Ryu style without once attending a dojo. A few bruises and bumps eventually led to me being so good that my sensei had to break sweat to get the better of me. I went on to train my own student, a friend and it saved his life when he got attacked by two thugs on his way to night duty. I was so delighted when he told me the next day.
From then I knew two more things about myself; that I could be good at anything I set my mind to do, and two I was clearly good at passing on to others whatever knowledge I gathered and change their life. I liked that feeling, a lot. That karate training also led to my successful performance during National parks physical entry tests, which I sailed through. National parks transfers led to publication of my first work with Masvingo post and Publicity bureau which was all poetry. Then the lure of publications took over and I had works in different magazines, stories and feature articles followed in National papers too, eventually leading to the first book publication coming out and another, till now I have 11 published books and three under consideration.
My favourite-
Writers; Chinua Achebe, Kenneth Roberts, Giles Kuimba, Stephen Alumenda, JK Rowling,
Singers of old; Robert Nesta marley, Leonard dembo, Don Williams, Oliver Mtukudzi and Lionel Ritchie.
Current now love music by; Mai Charamba, Pastor Mahendere, Jah Prayza and Takesure Zama.
Movies are; Two guns - Denzil Washington, then the Bond, Borne and Mission Impossible franchises. Currently pursuing the movie Dune 2.
Love what Kevin Hart is doing and saying these days. Trevor Noah still unstoppable. Thanks to the Zim guys for movie Gonarezhou.
I am currently trying my hand at film content, filming, podcasts and drawing comics. With over 30 manuscripts who know some of them might be screen stuff.
Enough of me and perhaps that also gives you the length and breath of what we can talk about on this blog. You are welcome, thanks for staying with me. next time we talk my book
