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Name
  
Makhosazana Xaba


Role
  
Poet

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Books
  
Running and Other Stories, Tongues of their mothers, These hands

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Makhosazana Xaba (born 1957) is a South African poet. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGO's, as well as writing on gender and health.

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She has an MA in creative writing from Wits University and is working on a biography of Noni Jabavu. Xaba's poems have been collected in These Hands (2005) and Tongues of Their Mothers (2008). A book of her short stories, Running and Other Stories, was published in 2013.

Makhosazana Xaba


Works

  • These Hands: Poems. Timbila Poetry Project, Elim Hospital, Limpopo Province, 2005. Poetry. ISBN 978-0958464086.
  • Tongues of Their Mothers. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. Poetry. ISBN 978-1869141448.
  • Running and Other Stories. Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2013. Fiction. ISBN 978-1920590161.

    • References

    Makhosazana Xaba Wikipedia
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