Charles Tonderai Mudede

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Charles Tonderai Mudede
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ResidenceAmerica
OccupationWriter , Film maker , Actor

Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker who is based in the United States. He is an Associate Editor for the Seattle-based weekly The Stranger, and a lecturer in English Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University near Tacoma, Washington.[1]


Background

Charles was born in Kwekwe but spent much of his childhood in the United States, and returned to Zimbabwe shortly after independence. His mother, Tracy Mudede, was a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, and his father, Ebenezer Mudede, was an economist for the Zimbabwe government. In 1989 Charles moved back to the US to study literature, art history, and political philosophy and never returned to Zimbabwe.

Work

Mudede has a lot of work under his name which has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Ctheory, which published one of his most pieces of writing. He also wrote Zoo, a movie about the late Kenneth Pinyan and the Enumclaw stallion incident and a writer on Robinson Devor's film You Can't Win, which stars Michael Pitt. Mudede also played a priest in The Naked Proof, released in 2003.

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