A school start-up specialist who also revamps curricular and revitalises schools around the world, Nomvuyo Lerato Mzamane is an award-winning educator and multimedia edutainment expert with a career spanning over three decades in over twenty countries on four continents. Across South Africa, Nomvuyo has run multi-million rand initiatives and is a highly sought after international education consultant.
Nomvuyo serves a number of nonprofits. As a long-term volunteer for the Puku Children’s Literature Foundation, she runs critical literacy workshops that centre books for the young in African languages. She considers herself a budding author of children’s literature and is currently working on, among other things, Our Baobabs, a creative nonfiction book about baobab trees, intended for the highly underserved tween market in South Africa. Her other children’s literary interests are historical fiction set in southern Africa, girl-child heroines in African-centred science fiction, and indigenous knowledge systems and STEM-subjects in multilingual creative nonfiction.