Nationality
United States of America (the)
Affiliation
Emiritus, Department of English, Ohio UniversityZakes Mda is part of the 2013 2nd Semester, and 2018 1st Semester cohorts at STIAS.
Projects
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Historical Novel - Research and Writing
While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written. -
The Zulus of New York/The Madonna of Excelsior Script
In 1880 William Leonard Hunt, known as The Great Farini after his trapeze act with a troupe called The Flying Farinis, a well-known Canadian funambulist and impresario, imported a group of Zulus to England and later to the United States to perform as part of the human curiosities or freak shows in his popular circus.
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STIAS Lecture Series: Prof. Zakes Mda - Place, memory, orature and the creative process: Readings from the fictions of Zakes Mda
Professor Zakes Mda, Professor of creative writing in the Department of English at Ohio University, and STIAS fellow will present a talk with the title: Place, memory, orature and the creative process: Readings from the fictions of Zakes Mda Abstract Zakes Mda will read from some of his novels to illustrate how he has alchemized the landscape, history, the oral traditions and folklore into what critics have referred to as magical realism.
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Recovering humanity? Book Launch of Zakes Mda's Justify the Enemy
STIAS is hosting the celebrated novelist, poet and playwright Zakes Mda as an Artist-in-Residence during 2018, where he is completing work on a new novel, The Zulus of New York.
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Telling a good story - Fellows' seminar by Zakes Mda
My mission is to tell a good story.