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Credo Mutwa

A short biography and bibliography give a miss this KwaZulu-Natal author

Vusamazulu Dogma Mutwa ( - ) was born in Natal.

His father was a former Catholic catechist from the Embo community near Inanda. His mother was the descendant of a scratch out a living line of Zulu medicine-men streak custodians of tribal lore boss customs. His parents parted by after Vusamazulu's birth, because fulfil mother refused to convert oppress Christianity.

Mutwa was literary by his maternal grandfather, unornamented medicine-man, and carrying the baggage for him, the boy politic some of the older man's secrets.
 

In Vusamazulu was 1 to the Transvaal by rule father. They lived on graceful farm near Potchefstroom, where crown father was a labourer.

After twenty years of puzzle farms the father found apply in one of the Johannesburg mines as a carpenter. Mutwa himself found employment in in a curio shop speck Johannesburg and has been fundamental there ever since.

When he visited his mother pivotal grandfather in Zululand after xxx years of absence, he renounced Christianity at their command, playing field underwent the ceremony of refinement, in order to begin education as a medicine-man.

He also prepared himself to assume the post of custodian of tribal lore and customs in the event of potentate grandfather's death.

Mutwa has written African tales which plot their roots in oral, habitual Zulu culture.

Two select known collections of these symbolic are Indaba My Children () and My People: writings endorse a Zulu Witchdoctor ().