My name is Mathias, I was born in March 1983 in Zimbabwe, a small African country of 15.99 million people. Population (in 2021), but it ranks high among large countries. My father worked as a driver for the United Nations. He left my mother for another woman when I was 2 days old. My mother fought hard to raise us as a single mother, me along with my half-brother and half-sister.

I grew up in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, in the Highfield district, an area called Egypt, under President Robert Mugabe. The area I grew up in was a high density suburb with high poverty and high crime. I went to elementary school and then high school (college) until the fourth grade, but I dropped out last year, and started hanging out with bad guys who weren't interested in school.