He is a prolific writer and has done considerable work in the area of systemic racism, through his writing and his legal advocacy'... The Honorable Sidney B. Linden Commissioner for the Ipperwash Inquiry, May 7, 2004.

Born in Zambia, a landlocked Country in South Central Africa, he is the second of four siblings. Munyonzwe Hamalengwa - in Tonga, his mother's tongue, translates into English as 'Sweet Trouble' spent his childhood in the agrarian town of Monze, that lies 2.5 hrs from Lusaka the Capital.