Zodwa Nyoni (born c. 1988) is a Zimbabwean-born poet and playwright, whose works have been performed at the Leeds Playhouse and the Royal Exchange.
Nyoni was born in Zimbabwe around 1988 and she first moved to England in 1992,[1] when she was aged four, because her father was awarded a scholarship to study for a master's degree in the textiles industry.
[7] Poetry features throughout the play, as it follows the lives of young spoken-word performers from Leeds.
[8] Nyoni's 2014 play, Nine Lives, was featured in a 2018 article on the migrant condition in British theatre.
[13] A more recent work, debuted at Summerhall in 2019, was A Khoisan Woman - a play about the Hottentot Venus.