Weaver Press

Bill Saidi was born in rural Marondera in 1937, but raised in Mbare, then called Harari. He was educated in Harare and at Plumtree. He became a journalist in 1957 and has worked for various papers in Zambia and Zimbabwe. He was the editor of the Daily News on Sunday until the paper was closed. His first short story was published in the African Parade in 1956. Subsequently he has had short stories published in South Africa, Zambia, Sweden, Egypt, the United States, on the BBC, and in the former Soviet Union. His novels include: The Hanging (1975), Day of the Baboons (1980), The Old Bricks Lives (1988), Gwebede's Wars (1989), The Brothers of Chatima Road (1990). Bill was published in Writing Still (2003) and Writing Now (2005).