Zakes Mda is the pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He was born in Herschel, South Africa in 1948, and after studying and working in South Africa, Lesotho and the United Kingdom, is now a professor in the English Department at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. His first novel, "Ways of Dying" takes place during the transitional years that marked South Africa's transformation into a democratic nation. Wikipedia
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