Marshall Shumba

Marshall Shumba was born in 1974 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where he attended school and completed a degree in agricultural sciences in 1997. Throughout his schooling days right up to university, Marshall acted with his father, Simon Shumba – a renowned comedian in Zimbabwe. Marshall appeared on several TV dramas and movies during his father’s lifetime until he joined formal employment as an agronomist in Zimbabwe.

He left Zimbabwe in 2008 and worked as an educator in South Africa where he worked on his first book titled, Blisters of Chimurenga, published in Canada, in 2016. Marshall is married to Perpetua and is a father of three. He moved from Bushbuckridge, South Africa to the UK in February 2023 and currently stays and works in Northampton.