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Project

Historical Novel - Research and Writing

While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written. It will be based on the historical events culminating in the killing of a British magistrate, Hamilton Hope, by Mhlontlo, a "paramount chief" of the amaMondomise clan, in October 1880 in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

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Event

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.