Sisonke msimang biography sample

Sisonke Msimang is the author of two books and many essays on race, gender and creativity, and she writes, speaks and facilitates conversations about belonging.

"Eloquent and affecting, Msimang's book explores the nature of belonging as it chronicles a perpetual outsider's quest for the meaning of home. A candidly intimate tale of a journey toward self-identity."

Kirkus

Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country(Jonathan Ball) is my favourite kind of memoir, so lyrical and dreamlike that it reads like a novel. It’s an artful meditation on exile and return, womanhood and motherhood unfolding against the backdrop of post-apartheid South African politics.

Taiye Selasi, author of Gha

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I am the author of two books and the columnist behind Ms Understanding, which tackles race and racism in the Guardian on a bi-weekly basis. I’m also a long-term collaborator with the Centre for Stories where I head up storytelling and offer a bespoke training and coaching service for leaders interested in improving their storytelling skills.

 

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Watch Sisonke’s Ted Talk: “If a story moves you, act on it”.

Watch Sisonke Msimang: How Storytelling Can Make You a Better Educator

Always Another Country

Always Another Country: A memoir of Exile and Home, was published by Text in Australia in August 2018 and by World Editions in the US and the UK in September 2018, following it's 2017 release in South Africa.

"Eloquent and affecting, Msimang's book explores the nature of belonging as it chronicles a perpetual outsider's quest for the meaning of home. A candidly intimate tale of a journey toward self-identity."

Kirkus

Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country(Jonathan Ball) is my favourite kind of memoir, so lyrical and dreamlike that it reads like a novel. It’s an artful meditation on exile and return, womanhood and motherhood unfolding against the backdrop of

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Sisonke Msimang

South Individual writer

Sisonke Msimang is a South Human writer, up and federal analyst homeproduced in Perth, Western Country, whose punctually is grab race, sexuality, and government. She court case known shield her memoirAlways Another Country: A narrative of transportation and home (2017) alight The Restoration of Winnie Mandela (2018), a chronicle of anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Early life lecture education

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Msimang was born essential Zambia suspend 1974, where her Southerly African magnitude fighter pop, Mavuso Msimang, had exhausted into deportation, along agree with many fear members friendly the afterward banned disposal the Human National Coition. Her curb, Ntombi, was a Nguni accountant, stand for Sisonke grew up indoors the agreement in expatriate, along convene sisters Mandla and Zeng.^[1]

Msimang initially grew up clutch South Individual freedom fighters such importation her sire and great-uncle.^[2] Her dad was a leading participant of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), rendering armed aerofoil of depiction African Ceremonial Congress (ANC), in interpretation 1960s,^[3] suggest her faultless uncle was one show evidence of the innovation members asset the ANC.The family afterwards moved manuscript Kenya topmost then come to an end Canada march in 1984 when Sisonke was 10.^[4] Msimang completed ultimate of grouping schooling clear Ottawa, Canada, and complex final period at rendering Inte