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Nkunzi Nkabinde Quotes

1975–2018 South Africa

Nkunzi Nkabinde (7 December 1975 – 24 May 2018) was a South African sangoma, author, and LGBT activist. They are recognized for their work and writings surrounding LGBT life as a South African, and they are best known for their memoir Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma.

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The institution of sangoma is rooted in an indigenous belief system in which the ancestors are primary.

My feeling is that women sangomas have always used ancestral wives as a way to have secret same-sex relationships. The secrecy is so deep that most people still think that same-sexuality is UnAfrican.

The interviewing work for Gala gave me a new understanding of my identity, my culture, and my place in my country.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nkunzi Nkabinde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.