Mudiwa Hood explains the ‘name change’

Gospel rapper Mudiwa Hood says the change in his government name from Ian Mtandwa to what has always been assumed to be his stage moniker is not a departure from who he is.

Mudiwa says Hood is actually is real surname.

In a statement, he said:

Mr Hood who resided in Chivhu, married a black woman (my great grand ma), got her pregnant and because of racism and family pressure, he chased away the black woman who is in this case my great grand ma. My great grand ma, who was pregnant then, went on to give birth to a mixed race baby and named him “Mtandwa”( we were chased away, meaning Mudzingwa). Instead of giving him surname Hood, as a bitter woman she adopted a surname from where she got re-married.
So my grand dad, used his step father’s surname and his name was Mtandwa ……,(Couldn’t mention the surname for privacy sake).
When my dad was born, he automatically inherited a surname that wasn’t his

So he says he was born Mudiwa Ian Mtandwa.