Nkunzi Nkabinde

Nkunzi Nkabinde (7 December 1975 – 24 May 2018) was a South African Traditional healers of Southern Africa 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. Quotes I feel my sexuality was with me from birth. It is not from my ancestors but my ancestors supported me … The ancestors helped me to become who I was. They guided me knowing that I was going to grow up being the way I am. The interviewing work for Gala gave me a new understanding of my identity, my culture, and my place in my country. Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma. Legacy of a lesbian sangoma 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. Legacy of a lesbian sangoma The institution of sangoma is rooted in an indigenous belief system in which the ancestors are primary. ‘This has happened since ancient times…it's something that you are born with’: ancestral wives among same-sex sangomas in South Africa External links Category:Novelists from South Africa Category:LGBT people Category:1975 births Category:2018 deaths