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Canada-based Zimbabwean fine artist — David Chinyama’s painting is featured on the cover of Cross of Gold, a book by late iconic South African writer and cultural activist Lauretta Nqobo.
Chinyama, a multi-disciplinary artist living and working out of Toronto is internationally recognized for his colourful textured mixed media paintings.
He also works with sculpture, film as well as interactive media design often exploring subject matters centred on aspects of identity, encompassing various social, economic, political and religious connotations.
In a post on his Facebook page Chinyama expressed gratitude to the Nqobo family Trust for the support.
“Thrilled to have my artwork featured on the cover of the reprint edition of ‘Cross of Gold‘ by the late iconic South African writer and cultural activist Lauretta Nqobo.
“Many thanks to my agent in South Africa Beathur Mgoza Baker and the Nqobo family Trust for their support. Book available now on online stores and some selected bookshops near you,” Chinyma wrote.
Lauretta Ngcobo (born 1931) was a South African novelist and essayist. After being in exile between 1963 and 1994, she lived in Durban until her death in November 2015.
The daughter of Simon Gwina, she was born in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, grew up there, and was educated at the University of Fort Hare.
She married Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo, a founder and member of the executive of the Pan Africanist Congress.
In 1963, facing imminent arrest, the family fled the country, moving to Swaziland, then Zambia and finally England, where she taught school for 25 years. Ngcobo returned to South Africa in 1994.
Her husband died in 1997.
In South African she taught for a while before becoming a Member of the KwaZulu Natal Legislature, where she spent eleven years before retiring in 2008.
In 2006, she received the Lifetime Achievement Literary Award of the South African Literary Awards. In 2008, she was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga for her work in literature and in promoting gender equality.
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