MAKUBE HELE! Ngokubhalwa

104pp., paperback, Icamagu Heritage Institute, Dutywa, 2025

ISBN: 9781037037245

A guide to how African Indigenous congregations can pray and worship, especially at public events where people of all faiths are present.

Text in isiXhosa.

Nokuzola Mndende is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nelson Mandela University. A qualified diviner/spirit medium (iGqirha), she was a member of Parliament in the South African National Assembly between 1999 and 2003, a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Religion in Education, and a part-time Commissioner to the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities. The founder of Icamagu Institute, which aims to revive and teach indigenous African spirituality, her books include The Home as a Sacred Place; African Spiritual Journey, rites of passage among the Xhosa speaking of South Africa; and Mfengu/ Dingo Mania, myopic vassal and the mentally oppressed in a post-colonial state.