“Perhaps as a stranger, I’m able to see things that people who have been living here their whole lives take for granted, things that to me are new and fresh.”
Download & View The complete interview with Zakes Mda here.
Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, composer, and film maker. He commutes between South Africa and the U.S., working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
Zakes Mda has received every major South African prize for his work, which includes The Heart of Redness, Ways of Dying, and She Plays with the Darkness—all published in paperback by Picador.
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