Gcina Mhlophe-Becker has been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 24 years. She has written many children's books as well as adult audience poetry and short stories and plays. Her writings are published all over the world and translated into German, French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese. Her work is used extensively in many schools and universities. Her NOZINCWADI Mother of Books Literacy Campaign, started in 2001, is still alive and touching thousands of children in hundreds of schools around South Africa. Gcina travels to perform storytelling in mostly rural schools and bringing books to set up school libraries and promote literacy. Gcina published several books and writing and storytelling continue to be the main focus of her creative energies.
