MUTWA, CREDO

(1921– )

Prolific Zulu writer who styles himself variously as shaman,medicine man, andwitch doctor. Mutwa’s books have been abouthealing, ritual, cosmology, and mythology. His promulgation of the notion thatAfricanpeoples and spiritual traditions derive from contact withspace alienshave not diminished his popularity among his main readership ofneo-shamans.