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  • Zakes Mda was born Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni in 1948 in the Eastern Cape.
  • Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda OIS (born 1948) is a South African novelist, poet and playwright.
  • Zakes Mda is famous for his contributions to world literature.

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    Holloway, Myles. "AN INTERVIEW WITH ZAKES MDA." South African Theatre Journal 2, no. 2 (January 1988): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10137548.1988.9687619.

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    1The Heart of Redness, published in 2000, is Zakes Mda’s second novel after Ways of Dying (1995). It won two literary awards: The Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa), and the Sunday Times Fiction award. The Heart of Redness is a richly textured novel intertwining two narrative strands over a period of almost one hundred and fifty years. It is a historical, satirical and ecological novel and, like many South African novels published after the demise of apartheid and in the aftermath of the Truth and Reconcilation kommission (hereafter TRC) hearings, it delves into the colonial past of the country and examines it in the light of contemporary issues. The Heart of rödhet ofta relaterad till irritation eller inflammation addresses post-colonial issues of ambivalence, empowerment, and epistemology. It deals with the difficult choice a disempowered and divided community in an amaXhosa seaside village, the birthplace of a legendary prophetess, Nongqawuse, has to make in order to adapt to the complexity of a changing worl

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    In 2019 at the Abantu Book Festival in Soweto, South African writer and artist Zakes Mda was celebrating the publication of his final novel, The Zulus of New York, when he made a surprise announcement. He had changed his mind and was writing another novel. He explained that “sometimes when you are a writer a story finds you and attacks you. It forces you to narrate it.”

    The story is set in Lesotho, a landlocked and mountainous country neighbouring South Africa. It covers the growth of a kheleke – a wandering minstrel – and his career and the heights it is possible to reach, before tragedy engulfs and silences his accordion.

    In Wayfarers’ Hymns, the author draws on his early life in Lesotho, where he joined his father in exile, and where he later taught at the national university. This novel re-connects the author to the land and culture of colourful blankets, Famo musicians and feuding factions, or “musical gangsters” as academic Nokuthula Mazibuko-Msimang calls them in a rec

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