Musaemura Bonas Zimunya akazvarwa musi wa14 Mbudzi 1949. Ndiye mumwe wenyora vechizvinozvino vanokosha. Zimunya akazvarwa kuUmtali, Rhodesia yave kunzi Mutare, Zimbabwe naMandiera Watch naKufera Zimunya. Mugore ra1973 akadzingwa payunivhesiti yeRhodesia nokuda kwekupikisa hutongo hwaivepo. Paainge adzingwa munyika yake yechizvarwa akugara kuGreat Britain akadzidza paKent yunivhesiti, Cantebury. Akapedza dhigirii reBachelor mugore ra1978 uye dhigirii reMasters mugore ra1979. Dissertation rake reMasters rakazotsikiswa richinzi ' Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe'.