What Happens after Mugabe?
Geoff Hill was born in 1956 and grew up in Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe, where he became fluent in the Shona language. In 1980, he joined the Manica Post newspaper on the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and, after the nationalization of the press in 1982, he moved to Australia and spent eight years with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. After working in Australia, the USA and UK, Geoff returned to Zimbabwe in 1997, where he worked as a journalist. In 2002, he moved to Johannesburg where he is Africa correspondent for the Washington Times. In September 2000 he became the first non-American to receive a John Steinbeck Award for short-story writing, and he also won the 2000 Common-wealth Short Story Award for Africa.