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WONDER GUCHU  (1969 - )

Nationality:    Zimbabwean
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Wonder Guchu is a Zimbabwean journalist. The 2007 National Arts Merit award winner for the best print media journalist. The National Journalist Media awards winner for 2006. The Zimbabwe Book Publishers association first book award winner for Sketches of High Density Life in 2006. The National Arts Merit award nominee in the best theatrical production for alone But Together (2007). Guchu has been in the media industry for more than 15 years during which he freelanced for almost every magazine and newspaper. He wrote for a provincial paper called Masvingo Star from 1991 to 1995. at almost the same time, he started contributing short stories on a weekly basis to the Sunday Mail Magazine. His short story stint ended in 1998. Some of the stories were compiled in the award-winning anthology Sketches of High Density Life that won the Zimbabwe Book Publishers' association first published book award in 2005. He then freelanced for the now defunct Parade Magazine writing a story about corruption in one of Zimbabwe's most popular church. For the first time the magazine was reprinted after it was sold out. When the Independent newspaper was established he was one of the first art reviewers. For a whole year, Guchu was the sole and constant reviewer for the weekly. In 1996, he was part of a team of young people who formed the then Knowtown News with funding from a Netherlands-based media donor. He edited and type-set the magazine that lasted four years. In 2000 when Knowtown News folded up, he hooked onto The Herald as an Arts reviewer and the following year, started an Arts column - Writers' HeArts - in the Standard weekly, a sister paper to the Independent. The column ran until 2002 when he left for the United Kingdom. But once there using a pseudonym he ran another column titled London Line about the lives of Zimbabweans in the diaspora. On his return he started compiling information on Zimbabwe's musicians and wrote about their lives, music, successes and failures. The column became so popular that The Herald asked him to do the same for them. In June 2003, he took the column along to The Herald and launched what was to become a glorious career in Arts and culture reporting. In November 2004, he joined The Herald as a senior reporter. His coming changed not only the face and nature of Arts and culture reporting and The Herald but in Zimbabwe. Using his column, Filecheck and another one Soundscheck, Guchu charted paths that no other Arts and culture journalist in the country had ever charted. a year later, he was elevated to Herald Entertainment Editor. and in February 2008 he was appointed the Herald deputy news editor. He is a secondary school teacher of English with more than 13 years experience and has taught in Masvingo and Harare.

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Alone But Together         Checkmate