Chenhamo Chimutengwende

Journalist, Writer and Politician

Chen Chitungwende is a Zimbabwean politician, author and journalist who has served in cabinet in the Zimbabwean government.

Background:
During the 1960s and 1970s Chimutengwende lived in exile in London, England, where he directed the Europe-Africa Research Project from a basement in Gower Street. He was a member of the editorial board of Red Mole, a paper closely associated with the International Marxist Group. A staunch supporter of Mao Zedong’s China, he resigned from the editorial board when the paper criticised Mao’s policies with regard to the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

Between 1979 and 1980 he worked in Nairobi, Kenya as a freelance journalist, writer and consultant on Mass Communication.  In the early 80s Chimutengwende was a senior lecturer of journalism at the University of Nairobi.

Chen is a long time member of ZANU PF, former secretary of Salisbury Youth District (1963-64) and has been a cabinet minister in of various portfolio’s Minister for Information, Posts and Telecommunications, Minister of Environment and Tourism and Minister of State for Public and Interactive Affairs.

He is the founder Chairman, Zimbabwe Foundation for Sustainable Development (2009) and founder of Afrika Global Network website.