Ongezwa Mbele is an applied theatre practitioner, storyteller, and published poet. She is a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Johannesburg, and a 2021 Atlantic fellow for Racial Equity. She has been a guest editor for Agenda Journal and Imbiza Journal for African Writing, has co-authored various research journal articles, and her poems have been featured in various anthologies. Her professional interest is in using theatre techniques and storytelling to engage with diverse communities. and she has facilitated theatre projects with youth and incarcerated people in South Africa and Norway and intercultural workshops for Norwegian and African professional exchange programmes.
