Mamodiehi Gwala

Mamodiehi Gwala is a Writer, Poet, Indigenous Healer and Researcher based in South Africa – Johannesburg. Her work places itself in the spaces of Poetry and Music. Her works and performance style house strands of poetry fused with song, they explore lived and imaginative experiences ordinary and celestial beings, mostly through jazz and ethereal poetry forms.

Her works focus on tackling social ills and aiding herself and others to find and embrace healing.

As a Psychology and Social Sciences graduate she describes and descries the world through the eyes and minds of the affected. She made a name for herself through performing at poetry initiatives geared towards giving back to society and empowering women and destitute township communities; some of these poetry initiatives include numerous open mic poetry nights, the SKY - Soweto Kliptown Youth Foundation, Let’s talk sex, love & lingerie, World of words, Home grown Radio, Ecaleni Sessions, new Acropolis School of Philosophy, The Sanitary towels drive, Munchies and thoughts and the Blairgowrie book fair.

Her work is featured in the following anthologies and poetry publications:
• Calabash Journal
• Writing for woman anthology: An anthology of African Asian Writers and Artists volume 3
• Woman Scream – an International call for female voices, 2023
• The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology Vol X, 2021
• Letting in the light a mental wellness Poetry Anthology, 2021
• BKO magazine “PROSE, POETRY & MYTHOLOGY IN INDABA, MY CHILDREN.”, 2021
• The Avbob Poetry Competition, 2020
• The Avbob Poetry Competition,2021
• Mirrors: A series of survival Anthology, 2020