Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean writer, storyteller, and musician, who writes mainly in Shona.
Mabasa is the first Zimbabwean to write a PhD thesis in Shona at Rhodes University, South Africa.
[2] Mabasa's debut novel, the satirical Mapenzi (Fools), won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers’ Association Awards in 2000.
won the 2009 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) Outstanding Fiction Book[4][5] as did his novel Imbwa yemunhu (You Dog) in 2014.
Frequently performing as a storyteller in schools, Mabasa has written several children's books in English and Shona, including The Man, Shaggy Leopard and the Jackal; and other stories, which won the NAMA in 2010.