Mtima is married and has one child born to a previous relationship.  This poet is author of “Reflections - A Compilation of Poems” and is in the process of publishing his second book entitled “Evolution - The Re-birth”.  He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of “Reflections of Our Oral TraditionS - ROOTS” a bi-monthly newsletter and annual magazine which focuses on the Revival of Our Oral Traditions, to Ensure the Continuance of Our Legacy; and one of the Directors of the Poets Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com.  He maintains a facebook profile @ www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=704478524 and a facebook ROOTS group @ www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7770904402. 

Mtima is host of "Cultural Xpressions" on IBN Channel 8/www.ibntv8.com every Sunday from 1:00 pm.  Mtima performed in 2000 at the first plastic - poetry recital and exhibition at the Venezuela Embassy organized by the Circle of Poets Andean Poets of Venezuela and the Circle of Poets of Trinidad and Tobago and on season two of SPEAK in 2008.  Mtima is also one of the lead poets with the IRS Poets and Drummers, the cultural arm of the Islamic Resource Society.  Mtima mentored and accompanied four young poets in July 2008 at the 11th Annual Brave New Voices Poetry Festival in Washington DC hosted by Youth Speaks.