Can someone help me identify 3 famous people from Zimbabwe?

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I need help trying to find 3 famous people from Zimbabwe.

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Shimmer Chinodya was born in Gweru in 1957, and was educated at the University of Zimbabwe where he studied literature and education. Later gaining an MA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Chinodya has worked extensively as a curriculum developer, materials designer, editor and screen-writer. His published works include Dew in the Morning (1982), Farai's Girls (1984), Child of War (1985) and Harvest of Thorns (1989) for which he won the Commonwealth's Writers' Prize for the Africa Region and an Honourable Mention from NOMA in 1990. Both Dew in the Morning and Harvest of Thorns have been serialised on radio. Chinodya has also published several children's books in drama, folklore and poetry under the name B. Chirasha. He has been awarded various fellowships abroad and, from 1995 to 1997, was a distinguished Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at St Lawrence University, New York. His most recent work 'Can We Talk and Other Stories' was short-listed for the Caine Prize in 2000.

'Can We Talk and Other Stories' (Heinemann, 2001) opens with the puzzled and innocent view of a boy looking in on the adult world from outside, and the collection follows the growth of a child into the man. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined by experiences of humiliation, compromise and a failure to communicate in a process that reflects a wider disillusionment and decline in post-Independence Zimbabwe. In the final story, 'Can We Talk', cynicism turns to anger as the narrator, facing the breakdown of his marriage, challenges us to confront - and remedy - the inaction that leads to disappointment and the deep-seated loneliness and alienation at the root of our estrangements.

'Dew in the Morning' (Heinemann, 2001), a sharply perceived evocation of changing life in rural Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s, is one of Shimmer Chinodya's first novels, published here for the first time outside Zimbabwe. The young boy Godi's family moves from the city to establish a small farm in the country. Like the other newcomers to the area, they try to adapt to unfamiliar customs and moral codes. But the village way of life itself is undergoing change. Godi observes the distressing incidents that mark this inexorable process as the villagers strive to resolve tensions between conflicting value-systems and ambitions every time he returns home during the school holidays. Each visit is an incident in a passage of time marked not only by Godi's development, but by the characters who people it in this small but growing village.

'Harvest of Thorns' (Heinemann, 1991) is a novel of great significance which will give all those who read it a greater understanding of the road along which Zimbabwe has travelled, as well as indicate many of the directions ahead. 'Zimbabwe has fine black writers and Shimmer Chinodya is one of the best. 'Harvest of Thorns' brilliantly pictures the transition between the old white dominated Southern Rhodesia, hrough the Bush War, to the new black regime. It is a brave book, a good strong story, and it is often very funny. People who know the country will salute its honesty, but I hope newcomers to African writing will give this book a try. They won't be disappointed.' -- Doris Lessing. A time of turbulence and turmoil is illustrated through the coming of age of Benjamin Tichafa, a young man torn between two worlds, between two sets of beliefs, between old and new.

CHINODYA, Shimmer (1957-), fiction writer and poet, was born in Gweru, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and educated at Goromonzi High School and at the then University of Rhodesia, where he studied English literature and trained as a school teacher, and at the University of Iowa, USA, where he gained a master's degree in fine art. Some of his poems were published in T.O McLoughlin's New Writing in Rhodesia (1976) and Kizito Muchemwa's anthology Zimbabwean Poetry in English (1978), but his first major publication was a collection of loosely related tales, Dew in the Morning (1982). The theme is growing up in colonial Rhodesia, the style almost poetic, designed to express the sights and sounds of rural life in Africa, where memorable peasant characters struggle to survive in a harsh environment. In his first novel, Farai's Girls (1984), he once again explores the theme of growing up in Rhodesia, this time against the background of a mounting guerilla war of liberation. Harvest of Thorns (1989), another novel, is more ambitious in scope, portraying life in the Rhodesia of the 1950s as well as the liberation war of the 1960s and 70s in a fusion of Western and African modes of expression. Linking the various segments of the novel are the experiences of a protagonist who eventually becomes a guerilla fighter, but who at the end of the war finds that he has nothing. Harvest of Thorns won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Africa region and has since been translated into German. Chinodya has also written five children's books in the series Traditional Tales of Zimbabwe, a film script, Everyone's Child (1996), and texts for schools, all of which reveal a writer keen to introduce students to a literature and culture rooted in Africa but open to the influences of the wider world.

Andy Flower
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Andy Flower
Zimbabwe (ZIM)
Batting style Left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling type Off spin (OB)
Tests ODIs
Matches 63 213
Runs scored 4794 6786
Batting average 51.54 35.34
100s/50s 12/27 4/55
Top score 232* 145
Overs bowled 0.3 5.0
Wickets 0 0
Bowling average 0.0 0.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 N/A
Best bowling N/A N/A
Catches/stumpings 151/9 141/32
As of 22 August 2005
Source: Cricinfo.com

Andrew "Andy" Flower (born 28 April 1968 in Cape Town, South Africa) was a cricket player for Zimbabwe and arguably its greatest. He is considered to be one of the best wicket-keeper batsman next only to Australian Adam Gilchrist.He made his international debut in a one-day international against Sri Lanka at New Plymouth, New Zealand in the 1992 cricket World Cup. He was Zimbabwe's wicket-keeper for over 10 years and, according to official statistics, by far the finest batsman the country has ever fielded.

Nearing the end of his career, Flower achieved international recognition (along with team mate Henry Olonga) in 2003 by wearing a black armband in a Cricket World Cup match to protest against the policies of Zimbabwe's government, led by Robert Mugabe. He and Olonga released a statement on 10 February, stating in part:

In all the circumstances, we have decided that we will each wear a black armband for the duration of the World Cup. In doing so we are mourning the death of democracy in our beloved Zimbabwe. In doing so we are making a silent plea to those responsible to stop the abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe. In doing so, we pray that our small action may help to restore sanity and dignity to our Nation.
This act led to pressure from Zimbabwe's government and Flower's retirement from Zimbabwean cricket. Flower had always been a keen student of Zimbabwean history, and is now arguably a significant part of that subject. He later played an English county cricket season for Essex and an Australian domestic season for South Australia.

Flower played 63 Test matches for Zimbabwe, scoring 4,794 runs at an average of 51.54 and taking 151 catches and 9 stumpings, and 213 one-day internationals, scoring 6,786 runs at an average of 35.34 and taking 141 catches and 32 stumpings. He holds the Zimbawean records for the most Test career runs, the highest Test batting average, and most ODI career runs. He is the only Zimbabwean in the ICC's Top 100 All-time Test Batting rankings at Number 24, putting him in the company of Brian Lara (ranked 19), Sachin Tendulkar (20), Steve Waugh (also 23) and Rahul Dravid (25 in September 2006).


Robert Gabriel Mugabe KCB (born February 21, 1924) is a Zimbabwean politician. He has been the head of government in Zimbabwe since 1980, first as Prime Minister and later as first executive President. Throughout his career, Mugabe has espoused pan-Africanism and African independence and unity. In recent years, Mugabe has attracted international criticism for alleged mishandling of land reforms, economic mismanagement, and a deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Mugabe, however, attributes the country's current hyperinflation and negative growth to Western sanctions and the legacies of white minority rule.

Robert Mugabe was raised at Kutama Mission, Zvimba District, north-west of Harare (then called Salisbury), in then Southern Rhodesia. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and was educated in Jesuit schools. He qualified as a teacher at age 17, but left to study at Fort Hare in South Africa, a notable university at the time, graduating in 1951 while meeting contemporaries such as Julius Nyerere, Herbert Chitepo, Robert Sobukwe and Kenneth Kaunda. He then studied at Driefontein in 1952, Salisbury (1953), Gwelo (1954), and Tanzania (1955–1957). Mugabe holds the following eight earned university degrees, as listed in his Who's Who entry:




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Nelson Mandela Desmond Tutu Iman

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Cecil Rhodes.
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I can help u with one,,,Bruce Grobbelaar , the famous goalkeeper of Liverpool, UK. He was born in South Africa and made an excellent career in the English premier league.