葡屬東非
Zeinal Bava was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique to a family of Indian ancestry. In 1975, after the events of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the independence of Portuguese Mozambique as the People's Republic of Mozambique, Zeinal Bava and his family moved to Lisbon. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College of London.