Musodza was born at the cusp of the emergence of the new Zimbabwe, the eldest son of a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Lands. The Musodza family are of the Buja people of Mutoko, north east Zimbabwe. Reading was encouraged in the Musodza household. He was educated at Avondale Primary School, Harare and St Mary Magdalene's High School, Nyanga. After school, he trained as a screenwriter, selling his first screenplay to Media For Development Trust in 2002. Barely a month after, as political and socio-economic uncertainty engulfed Zimbabwe, Musodza relocated to the United Kingdom, where he has lived ever since. He lives in the North East England town of Middlesbrough.
Writing
An avid reader as a child, Musodza aspired to be a writer from the time he discovered that it was possible to earn a living from it. Musodza has contributed to StoryTimee-zine, which was founded by Sweden-based Zimbabwean author and publisher, Ivor Hartmann., Jungle Jim, Bookends, Winter Tales and other periodicals. He is also the author of the first definitive science fiction novel in the Shona language, MunaHacha Maive Nei? Masimba Musodza is a Charter Member of the African Speculative Fiction Society.He is one of two Zimbabwean writers who have been featured in Geoff Ryman's 100 African Writers of SF In addition to two personal blogs, Musodza, an advocate for Zionism, blogs for The Times of Israel''.
Publications
The Rapture of Pastor Agregate Makunike, Chitungwiza Musha Mukuru: An Anthology From Zimbabwe's Biggest Ghetto Town, Mwanaka Publishing, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, 2020
The Witch of Eskale Hall, "Creep" anthology, ed. Jay Chakravarti, Culture Cult Magazine, India, 2019,
The Interplanetary Water Company, AfroSFv3, 2018, StoryTime,
MunaHacha Maive Nei?, 2016, Belontos Books,
African Roar edited by E. Sigauke/I.W. Hartmann, Lion Press, 2010,
Shavi Rechikadzi, 2015, Belontos Books,
Here be Cannibals, Jungle Jim #23, Afreak Press, Cape Town, 2014
Chishamiso, Bookends, The Sunday Observer, Kingston, 2012
Uriah's Vengeance, Lion Press, 2009,
The Village Idiot, Trends, Bulawayo, 2006
Acting
Masimba Musodza's professional acting debut was in Edgar Langeveldt's play, No News, which premiered at Theatre-In-The-Park, Harare, in 1997. He also appears in a short film, Vengeance is Mine by Tawanda Gunda. However, it was not until he settled in Middlesbrough that he began to pursue acting more seriously. He appeared in a short play, To Be Or Not To Be, written by compatriot Dictator Maphosa, as part of the Middlesbrough Council-sponsored Boro Bites short plays. In 2011, he joined the Arc Sketch Group, an extension of the Writers Block North East workshops, which put on themed sketch shows at the Arc Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees until it disbanded in 2012. Since then, Masimba Musodza has been a film and TV extra, appearing in such productions as , where he plays a Vani warrior. He can also be seen in the festival teaser and UK trailer for Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake. He has also appeared in Make! Craft Britain, which was aired on BBC4 the 9th of June 2016. His most recent appearance has been in the short film I Need help, where he plays 'The Wise Man'
