South African Author and Storyteller to Visit Campus
November 10, 2006

Tacoma, Wash. – Writer Sindiwe Magona will visit the Puget Sound campus on Friday, Nov. 10, to speak about her book, Mother to Mother. Her talk, “Ubuntu and Reconciliation: themes in Mother to Mother,” will explore reconciliation as an integral part of the Ubuntu tradition. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in Wyatt Hall 109.

Magona was born in the Transkei region of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, the homeland of the Xhosa people, the ethnic group associated with Nelson Mandela and other prominent figures in the apartheid resistance. Sindiwe’s writings recall her impoverished youth in the harsh surroundings of the cape clats, where many of the Xhosa people migrated in search of employment and her personal and political struggles as a black South African woman living under apartheid to achieve racial and gender equity in South Africa.

Magona earned her matric (high school diploma) by correspondence, as a single mother of three, while working as a domestic servant. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of South Africa and her master’s degree in organizational social work from Columbia University.

Sindiwe Magona’s lecture is sponsored by the Humanities Program with additional support from the Departments of English and the Gender Studies Program.

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