Mafika Gwala

Background

Mafika Gwala was born and grew up in North of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Career

He spent most of his adult life in Mpumalanga Township, west of Durban. He worked in a factory as a clerk, an industrial relations officer, a high school teacher and a guest university lecturer aside from writing and editing. He completed an Master of Philosophy in Politics from the University of Natal and was a researcher at Manchester University.

Gwala was active in the struggle against Apartheid and a leading light of the 1970s Black Consciousness movement of which he says: In 1982, Gwala published a book of Black Consciousness poetry in a collection called His work is characterised by a rhythmic musicality he attributes to the Zulu language.

In 1991 he edited and translated into English a collection of Zulu writing entitled.

Works

• book

  • No More Lullabies (Staffrider)