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Top 5 Things You Might Not Know About Enock Chihombori

Enock Chihombori is one of the best local film pioneers who kept our eyes glued to the television. He is Botswana based Zimbabwean film producer, scriptwriter, actor, author and cartoonist. Here are Top 5 Things You Might Not Know About Enock Chihombori.

Top 5 Things You Might Not Know About Enock Chihombori

1. Enock Chihombori was born in Lusaka Zambia on 5 June 1971.

2. He moved to Zimbababwe in 1981. Formally got employed by Byco Industries (Shelf manufacturing Company) as a Sales Draughtsman in 1991. He worked at Byco for six months before leaving to join Cochrane Engineering as a Trainee Mechanical Design Draughtsman.

3. Chihombori  started drawing cartoons mainly because he enjoyed reading cartoons as a kid. While in form 6, Chihombori developed a cartoon character called Gringo, which he drew for a local vernacular paper, Kwayedza.

4. After school in 1991, Chihombori went straight to work. As he was pursuing his professional career, Chihombori never stopped drawing cartoons for various newspapers, magazines and newsletters.

5. In 1995 veteran writer Charles Mungoshi advised Chihombori to write his own stories rather than expect other people to do it for him. He then embarked on a 3 year mission to teach himself how to write television and film scripts. By 1998 he had his first Gringo script which was produced by Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) as a television comedy drama series.

 

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