Nevanji Madanhire, born 1961, has lived a varied life reflecting the restlessness of growing up in an amorphous fledgling Zimbabwe. As a teenager, Nevanji saw the political fission resulting from the dying years of the war of liberation when most of his classmates were forced to either join the liberation forces or be conscripted into the Rhodesian army. Because of cowardice he only chose to throw a few stones at the establishment from the safety of the mobs of demonstrating students. The two decades of independence saw the pain of a nation dismally failing to define itself, and became for Nevanji, a period of soul-searching during which he worked as a teacher, a curriculum theorist, an educational book publisher, a public relations executive and a journalist. He has published two books, Goatsmell, (1993) and If the Wind Blew, (1995). He hopes, when his kids are through with school, to become a full-time writer. Nevanji was published in Writing Still (2003).