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'''Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa''' (also known as '''Credo Mutwa''' and '''Credo V. Mutwa''') (1921- ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusamazulu_Credo_Mutwa] is a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer), theorist, author, playwright and cultural leader from South Africa. He is also a writer of stories that mix the traditional Zulu folkore with extraterrestrial encounters and his own personally created fables.
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'''Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa''' (also known as '''Credo Mutwa''' and '''Credo V. Mutwa''') (1921- ) [http://credomutwa.com/about/] is a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer), theorist, author, playwright and cultural leader from South Africa. He is also a writer of stories that mix the traditional Zulu folkore with extraterrestrial encounters and his own personally created fables.
  
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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Claimed there were developed dramatic forms in African traditional societies (see articles in ''[[S'ketsh]]'') and attempted to reconstruct this form of early African theatre, for which he used the Zulu word ''umlinganiso''. His play ''[[uNosilimela]]'', first performed by the [[Experimental Theatre Workshop '71]] in 1973, was based on this reconstruction.
  
Claimed there were developed dramatic forms in African traditional societies (see articles in ''S’ketsh'') and attempted to reconstruct this form of early African theatre, for which he used the Zulu word umlinganiso. His play ''[[uNosilimela]]'', first performed by the [[Experimental Theatre Workshop '71]] in 1973, was based on this reconstruction. First published in [[Robert Kavanagh]] (ed) [[South African People’s Plays]] by Heinemann in 1981.  
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First published in [[Robert Kavanagh]] (ed) [[South African People’s Plays]] by Heinemann in 1981.  
  
  
His published writings include:  
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His published writings include: ''Indaba, My Children'' (1964); ''Africa Is My Witness'' (1966); ''My People, the Writings of a Zulu Witch-Doctor'' (1977); ''Songs of the Stars'' (2000); ''Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries'' (19**) (2nd edition 2003); ''The Reptilian Agenda'' with David Icke (20**)
  
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== Sources ==
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See: ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusamazulu_Credo_Mutwa].
  
Indaba, My Children (1964). ISBN 0-8021-3604-4, 1st American edition (March 1999)
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Various entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue.
• Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries. ISBN 0-89281-129-3, 2nd edition (10 October 2003)
 
• Songs of the Stars. ISBN 1-886449-01-5, 1st edition (May 2000)
 
• Africa Is My Witness, Johannesburg: Blue Crane Books, 1966. ISBN unknown
 
• The Reptilian Agenda with David Icke and Credo Mutwa - the complete series.
 
• My People, the Writings of a Zulu Witch-Doctor (Penguin Books, 1977)[1] ISBN 0-14-003210-X
 
 
 
  
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Latest revision as of 11:53, 13 August 2024

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (also known as Credo Mutwa and Credo V. Mutwa) (1921- ) [1] is a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer), theorist, author, playwright and cultural leader from South Africa. He is also a writer of stories that mix the traditional Zulu folkore with extraterrestrial encounters and his own personally created fables.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Claimed there were developed dramatic forms in African traditional societies (see articles in S'ketsh) and attempted to reconstruct this form of early African theatre, for which he used the Zulu word umlinganiso. His play uNosilimela, first performed by the Experimental Theatre Workshop '71 in 1973, was based on this reconstruction.

First published in Robert Kavanagh (ed) South African People’s Plays by Heinemann in 1981.


His published writings include: Indaba, My Children (1964); Africa Is My Witness (1966); My People, the Writings of a Zulu Witch-Doctor (1977); Songs of the Stars (2000); Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries (19**) (2nd edition 2003); The Reptilian Agenda with David Icke (20**)

Sources

See: Wikipedia [2].

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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