Freedom Nyamubaya is a rural development activist, farmer, dancer and writer who was born in Uzumba. Cutting short her secondary school education in 1975, she left to join the Zimbabwe National Liberation Army in Mozambique where she achieved the rank of Female Field Operation Commander, later being elected Secretary for Education in the first ZANU Women’s League conference in 1979. After Independence, she founded MOTSRUD, an NGO that provides agro-services to rural farmers, and she has worked on attachment with the United Nations in Mozambique. Her first volume of poetry, On the Road Again (Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1985) was followed by Dusk of Dawn (College Press, 1995), both being attempts to grapple with a brutal world using powerful images and disconcerting rhythms. Freedom was published in Writing Still (2003).
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