Biography
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe, also known as Gcina Mhlophe, was born in 1958 in South Africa. A performance poet, she is also a filmmaker and the author of several children's books and plays. She has performed in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Kennedy Center in New York. She has also received a BBC Africa Service Award for Radio Drama, The Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival, and an OBIE in New York. She runs a literacy program in South Africa, Nozincwadi, and the Nozincwadi Storytelling and Book Festival. In 2018, Mhlophe began work on developing the Gcina Mhlophe Memory House, a museum dedicated to storytelling and oral history in South Durban.
