Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was a prolific author of books on African culture, history and religions. These books represent his collected works. For those wanting to purchase his books, please follow the links and purchase them directly where available. If they are not available, contact us with the specific book you’re looking for, and we’ll assist you in finding a copy from rare book dealers.
📚 Books by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
1. Indaba, My Children (1964)
ISBN-10: 0802136044 | ISBN-13: 9780802136046
Indaba, My Children isn’t a book—it’s a library. Credo Mutwa, a Zulu heir to a stolen oral tradition, broke a sacred oath to write it. Beginning with Ninavanhu‑Ma, the Great Mother, he weaves an epic tapestry of gods, kings, witch doctors, and colonial invaders. It’s a defiant act of preservation, a vibrant counter‑narrative to the erasure of African culture. If you want to understand Africa—not as a stereotype, but as a living, breathing mythology—start here.
2. Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries (2003)
ISBN-10: 0892811293 | ISBN-13: 9780892811298
This is the rare book where a sacred tradition speaks directly. Mutwa, a Christian‑schoolteacher‑turned‑sangoma, breaks generations of silence to reveal Zulu mysticism. He shares healing techniques, dreamwork, oracles, and even encounters with “fiery visitors” (extraterrestrials). It’s part autobiography, part manual of indigenous science. The lesson: ancient wisdom isn’t primitive—it’s simply a different technology for navigating the unknown.
3. Songs of the Stars / Song of the Stars: The Lore of a Zulu Shaman (1996 / 2000)
ISBN-10: 1886449015 | ISBN-13: 9781886449015
Seth Godin‑Style Summary: Before Carl Sagan, some African shamans read the cosmos like a map. Mutwa presents lore, prophecies, dreams, and tales that reveal a rich, complex mythology linking humanity to the stars. This is his personal story woven into a comprehensive sketch of African cosmology. It’s a reminder that wonder isn’t owned by any one culture—and that the best stories are the ones we almost lost.
4. Africa Is My Witness (1966)
ISBN: Information not available for this book
Seth Godin‑Style Summary: A remarkable volume, begun in response to the injustices against Africans and their culture. Mutwa sets down legends that had been passed orally for generations—from the creation myth to the arrival of the Portuguese Kapitanoh. It’s a literary and ethnographic achievement, a defiant act of witness. The title says it all: Africa itself testifies through these pages. If you find a copy, treasure it.
5. My People: Writings of a Zulu Witch-Doctor (1969 / 1977)
ISBN-10: 014003210X | ISBN-13: 9780140032109
Seth Godin‑Style Summary: A witch doctor is part physician, part poet, part living library. Mutwa—raised Christian, returned to his ancestors’ faith—uses legend, folklore, mythology, and South African history to take storytelling to a whole new level. He challenges Western civilisation’s alien values and asserts that a people who forget their own traditions will never be truly free. This is the book where Mutwa earned his title: “the Homer of Africa.”
6. Let Not My Country Die (1986)
ISBN-10: 062010290X | ISBN-13: 9780620102902
Seth Godin‑Style Summary: A cry of anguish from a healer watching his homeland self‑destruct. Mutwa writes on apartheid, racism (white‑on‑black and black‑on‑black), cultural differences, and religion. His message: South Africa needs salvation, not crucifixion. He recounts a sangoma’s 1975 vision of the Virgin Mary holding a calendar—foretelling death, conflict, and a nation losing its way. It’s prophetic, painful, and utterly relevant today.
7. Isilwane: The Animal (1996)
ISBN-10: 1868259706 | ISBN-13: 9781868259700
Seth Godin‑Style Summary: A Zulu shaman invites you to see animals as Africans see them: not as resources, but as kin. 28 wild animals, from wildebeest to zebra, each with its mythology, its spiritual role, and its life‑giving lesson. Mutwa explains that Africans never placed themselves above animals—they walked alongside them. This book reconnects you to a forgotten truth: the natural world has been trying to teach us all along.
8. Woman of Four Paths: The Strange Story of a Black Woman in South Africa (2007)
Co-authored with Virginia Nkagisang Rathele
ISBN-10: 0615178030 | ISBN-13: 9780615178035
This book traces a black South African woman’s unusual struggle through four roles—domestic worker, female teacher, hospital nurse, and finally traditional healer. Credo Mutwa wrote the final chapters and contributed a fascinating tale comparing the deaths of Princess Diana and King Mushweshwe. It’s the story of his wife, Mama Virginia, a highly respected traditional healer and sanusi who trained under Mutwa for many years. Together, they’ve steered their healing knowledge into the fight against HIV/AIDS, promoting Sutherlandia (cancer bush) as a herbal remedy.
9. African Proverbs (1997)
ISBN-10: 1868720047 | ISBN-13: 9781868720040
A collection of African proverbs from across the continent, originally published by Struik Publishers. Proverbs are the oil with which words are eaten, as Chinua Achebe said. Mutwa, a master oral storyteller and custodian of Zulu tradition, gathered sayings that reflect both the past and the present, as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society. The proverbs are divided into subject groups such as human nature, family life, good fortune, time, animals, and nature.
📕 Works About Credo Mutwa
“Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa: Zulu High Sanusi” (2006)
Edited by Bradford Keeney; Photographs by Kern L. Nickerson
Format: Book with audio CD
A master healer tells his own story, presented by Dr Bradford Keeney, one of the few non‑Africans ever initiated as a sangoma. Mutwa, the most famous African traditional healer of the 20th century, shares the wisdom of Africa’s sangomas. This beautiful volume includes an audio CD of prayers, sacred songs, and ceremonies. It’s part memoir, part art book, part spiritual transmission. If Mutwa’s own books are the teaching, this is the man behind the teaching—unfiltered, unforgettable.
“The Reptilian Agenda” (2004) – Film / DVD Series
Interviewed by David Icke
A 6‑hour conversation between two iconoclasts. David Icke interviews Credo Mutwa, and Mutwa confirms what African oral tradition has said for millennia: a reptilian extraterrestrial race has shaped human history. Whatever you believe, this is a rare document—a Zulu shaman breaking protocol to speak about control systems, manipulation, and the hidden architecture of power.
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