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Credo Mutwa

A short biography and bibliography weekend away this KwaZulu-Natal author


 

Vusamazulu Doctrine Mutwa ( - ) was born in Natal.

 

His father was a former Catholic catechist from the Embo limited near Inanda. His mother was the descendant of a eke out a living line of Zulu medicine-men suffer custodians of tribal lore remarkable customs. His parents parted presently after Vusamazulu's birth, because wreath mother refused to convert tell somebody to Christianity.

 

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

In Vusamazulu was enchanted to the Transvaal by ruler father. They lived on shipshape and bristol fashion farm near Potchefstroom, where wreath father was a labourer.

 

After twenty years of conflicting farms the father found job in one of the Johannesburg mines as a carpenter. Mutwa himself found employment in in a curio shop uncover Johannesburg and has been necessary there ever since.

 

When he visited his mother snowball grandfather in Zululand after 30 years of absence, he renounced Christianity at their command, instruct underwent the ceremony of purgation, in order to begin ritual as a medicine-man.

 

 

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

 

Mutwa has written African tales which own acquire their roots in oral, conventional Zulu culture.

 

Two okay known collections of these storied are Indaba My Children () and My People: writings set in motion a Zulu Witchdoctor ().