Zakes Mda

**Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda** (/ˈzɛɪks mˈdɑː/; o tshotswe ka 6 Phalane 1948) ke mokwadi wa dibuka, poko le metshameko wa kwa Aforika Borwa. Ke ngwana wa ga A.P Mda wa mopolotiki. Dibuka tsa gagwe le metshameko di fentse dietsele tse dikgolo kwa Aforika Borwa le kwa Britain.

## Botshelo jwa fa a gola  le thuto
Zanemvula Mda o tsholetswe kwa Herschel kwa Aforika Borwa ka ngwaga wa1948, a fetsa dithuto tsa *Cambridge Overseas Certificate* kwa *Peka High School* kwa Lesotho ka ngwaga wa 1969. O ne a tswelela a ya go ithutela BFA (botaki le padi) kwa International Academy of Arts and Literature kwa Zurich, kwa Switzerland ka ngwaga wa 1976. O feditse dithuto tsa MFA (bodiragatsi) le MA(puisano le bobegadikgang) ka ngwaga wa 1984 kwa Ohio University kwa United States. O feditse dithuto tsa gagwe tsa PhD kwa University of Cape Town kwa South Africa ka ngwaga wa 1989.

## Tiro
Fa a simolola go gatisa dibuka, o ne a dirisa leina la bokwadi la Zakes Mda. Fa godimo ga go kwala dibuka le metshameko, o rutile puo ya sekgoa le bokwadi jwa boitlhamedi kwa Aforika Borwa le kwa United Kingdom.

O ne a ya kwa United States bosheng jaana, kwa a neng a nna morutuntshi mo lephateng la sekgoa kwa Ohio University kwa Athens, Ohio. O ntse e le morutuntshi o o etang kwa Yale University le kwa University of Vermont. O nnile morutuntshi gape kwa Johns Hopkins University.

Mda ke leloko ebile o mo lekgotleng la bogakolodi la lekgotla la African Writers Trust, le e leng lekgotla le le sa direng dipoelo le le itebagantseng le go amanya le go tsisa mmogo bakwadi ba ma Aforika mo lefatsheng ka bophara go kgona go abelana ditlamelo le botswerere, le go rutana mo ditlhopeng tsotlhe ka bobedi.

Ka ngwaga wa 2013, ene le Ama Ata Aidoo, Dele Olojede, Ellah Allfrey, Margaret Busby le Kole Omotoso ba ne ba nna batshegetsi ba seetsele sa Etisalat Prize for Literature.

## Dibuka tse a di kwadileng
thumb|Bakwadi ba Lefatshe la Aforika Borwa. Don Mattera, Jristen Miller le Zakes Mda.
Buka ya ntlha ya ga Mda e e bidiwang Ways of Dying ee gatisitsweng ka ngwaga wa 1995, ditiragalo tsa yone ke ka dingwaga tsa lefatshe la Aforika Borwa le fetoga go nna lefatshe la batho ka batho. E setse morago moanelwamogolo Toloki. Morago ga gore a iphitlhele a humanegile, o simolola tiro ya go nna mohutsahadi. O tsaya loeto mo toropong ya Aforika Borwa e e sa bolelwang ka leina, a bo a kopana le mokapelo wa gagwe wa pele kwa mengweng ya metsana e a neng a e tsamaya.

*The Heart of Redness* e e gatisitsweng ka ngwaga wa 2000, ke buka ya ga Mda ya boraro, e e tlhotlheleditsweng ke ditso tsa ga Nongqawuse, moporofiti wa mosadi wa moXhosa, o diporofito tsa gagwe di rotloeditseng polao ya dikgomo ka 1856 go tsena 1857. Ngwao ya seXhosa e ne ya kgaogana ka badumedi le ba ba sa dumeleng, se se oketsa itsholelo e e kwa tlase le leuba. Go dumelwa gore batho ba ka nna dikete di le masome a mabedi ba ne ba tlhokafala ka ntlha ya tlala ka no eo. Mo bukeng e, Mda o ama nako ya gompieno le ya nako ya ga Nongqawuse go supa neelano ya ditso le mainane. 

## Dibuka tse a di gatisitseng

* 1977 New South African Writing
* 1979 We Shall Sing for the Fatherland
* 1979 Dead End
* 1979 Dark Voice Ring
* 1980 The Hill
* 1982 Banned: A play for Radio
* 1982 Summer Fires
* 1995 Ways of Dying
* 1995 She Plays with the darkness
* 1998 Melville 67
* 2000 The Heart of Redness
* 2002 Fools, Bells and The Importance of Eating:Three Satires
* 2005 The Whale Caller
* 2007 Cion
* 2009 Black Diamond
* 2011 Sometimes There is a void: Memoirs of an outsider
* 2012 Our Lady of Benoni
* 2013 The Sculptors of Mapungubwe
* 2014 Rachel's Blue
* 2015 Little Suns
* 2019 The Zulus of New York
* 2021 Wayfarers'Hymns

## Dietsele

* 1978: Amstel Playwright of the Year award
* 1979: Amstel Playwright of the year Award, mofenyi ka buka ya The Hill kwa Botswana
* 1997: M-Net Book Prize, Ways of Dying, kwa Botswana
* 2001: Commonwealth Writers'Prize: Africa, The Heart of Redness kwa Botswana
* 2001: Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, The Heart of Redness
* 2001: Sunday Times Fiction Prize, The Heart of Redness
* 2004: Top 10 South African Books published in teh decade of Democracy, The Madonna of Excelsior kwa Botswana
* 2017: Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, Little Suns

## Metswedi