Compiled, edited and translated from isiZulu by business executive and well-known writer Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba, The Shaman is a collection of poems by five contributors, in addition to those by Nyatsumba. These are Thandiwe Nonkululeko NtseleJeremiah Sikhulumi Vilakazi, Michael Mandl’aButi Mathabela, Richard Tsanyela Zwane and Abraham Ambluk Banda.

A former Newspaper Editor, Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba is currently the CEO of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa. He was educated at Georgetown University in the USA and the University of Hull in the UK.