Lawrence Vambe
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Lawrence Vambe MBE (1917–2019) was a Zimbabwean writer and journalist.[1]
Vambe was born in the village of Chishawasha in what was then Southern Rhodesia. His father, Joseph, was a peasant farmer; his mother died when he was a baby due to the influenza epidemic. He was then raised by Jesuit missionaries.[1]
Education
He attended Kutama College, the same school as Robert Mugabe,[2] before embarking on teacher training in South Africa at South African Native College, which became University of Fort Hare.[1]
