Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Craig Higginson na Harare, Zimbabwe, na 1971 (nke a na-akpọbu Salisbury, Rhodesia). N'ihi ọnọdụ na-akawanye njọ n'oge agha Rhodesian Bush, ya na nne ya na nwanne ya nwanyị kwagara Johannesburg na 1976, afọ nke
Ọgba aghara Soweto. Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri, ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ na KwaZulu-Natal na Clifton Nottingham Road na Michaelhouse. Ala Midlands ga-emecha pụta ìhè nke ọma na akwụkwọ akụkọ ya na ihe nkiri ya. N'afọ 1990, n'ime izu ndị ahụ a tọhapụrụ Nelson Mandela n'ụlọ mkpọrọ na iwepụ mmachibido iwu nke African National Congress, Higginson gara Mahadum nke Witwatersrand ịmụ Fine Art, mana emesịa kwaga BA (Honors) na Bekee na European Literature. N'afọ 1995, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye enyemaka nke onye nduzi Barney Simon na Market Theatre. Mgbe Simon nwụsịrị, ọ kwagara England, ebe ọ ga-anọ afọ iri. N'ebe ahụ ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Young Vic Theatre na Tim Supple na Royal Shakespeare Company na Michael Attenborough. Ọ bụkwa onye nkatọ ihe nkiri ruo afọ ole na ole na magazin "Time Out". O bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, "Embodied Laughter", mgbe ọ dị afọ iri abụọ na isii na South Africa na England ma gbanwee "Laughter in the Dark" maka Royal Shakespeare Company na BBC Radio 3 n'oge na-adịghị anya. Ọ laghachiri ibi na ịrụ ọrụ na South Africa na 2004. Kemgbe ahụ Higginson kụziri na Mahadum Witwatersrand ma bụrụ onye njikwa akwụkwọ nke Market Theatre. O bipụtala ọtụtụ akwụkwọ akụkọ na ihe nkiri ma rụọ ọrụ nke ọma na telivishọn South Africa dịka onye edemede. O nwere PhD na Creative Writing ma lụọ onye na-eme ihe nkiri Leila Henriques. Ha bi na Johannesburg.