Koleka Putuma
(Cape Town)
Koleka Putuma, born in Gqeberha in 1993, is a theater director, writer, spoken-word and video artist. Her debut poetry volume ‘Collective Amnesia’ became an international bestseller and was named by both The Sunday Times and Quartz Africa among their Books of the Year for 2017. Her book ‘Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In’ was published in 2021. Putuma has founded Manyano Media, a multidisciplinary creative enterprise producing works for publishing houses, film, advertising, and theaters, while focusing primarily on the perspectives of Black, queer women writers and artists from South Africa.
