NAMA Outstanding Poet · Master of Ceremonies
The floor goes quiet. Then he speaks.
Ngonidzashe Paradza — Mambo Guramatunhu — is the Masvingo wordsmith hired for weddings, state rooms, and nights when the country needs a whistle blown in verse.
Poems you can find after the hall empties.
A first shelf — text, film, and the occasion each piece was born for.
Dai Wadzoka Mwanangu
A calling-home poem. Grief, return, and the child who is still expected at the door.
Nherera Ikapusa
The orphan who must still walk straight. Tenderness without pity.
Ma Addictions
The new pandemic he named in Zvombo — drugs, appetite, and a country that must look itself in the eye.
KuChaya Mapoto
Domestic fire, spoken in the register that makes a hall go quiet then laugh.
Mainyomberei Masvingo
Chikaranga word-play for the granite city and the people Wezhara, Wezhira, Wezheve.
Zvemitupo
Totems as living law. Recorded with mbira at Monolio Studios.
The nation already wrote it down.
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- Writing Africa — NAMA Outstanding Poet — Ngonidzashe Paradza aka Mambo Guramatunhu2024
- TellZim — Masvingo’s Mambo Guramatunhu bags NAMA Award2024
- The Herald — Guramatunhu seeks space for poets2024
- NewsDay — A naughty wordsmith of note2024
- Zimbabwe Writers Association — Reciting at the ZWA Writers Meet-up, Harare2026
A letter when there is a new fire.
No spam. A poem, a date, or a month he is free to host.