[Interview] Omen Muza
Omen Nyevero Muza holds an MBA and runs a financial advisory firm he co-founded in Harare. He is also a financial columnist with a local daily newspaper. One of his short stories appears in the anthology, Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe (amaBooks, 2011). He writes and plays guitar in his spare time. In this interview, Omen Muza talks about his concerns as a writer: When did you start writing? My first serious attempt at writing was while waiting for my O-Level results. I cobbled together a collection of poems which was, however, never published. Before that, I recall that my Grade 7 teacher put my name to something I didn’t write and submitted it to some obscure publication. Perhaps as some form of poetic justice, the publication misspelt my name to something entirely unrecognizable so in the end it was never attributed to me anyway. I am sure my beloved teacher meant well and obviously had a soft spot for me but I wonder whether she was aware that she was