世人对南非历史的了解大致始于十七世纪中期第一批殖民者荷兰人的入侵,而对前殖民地时期的南非知之甚少,甚至连想象力都无法穿透那厚重的历史尘埃,窥探古南非的文明与文化,以致于人们形成了一种南非古代文明缺失的错觉。南非小说家扎克斯·姆达(Zakes Mda,1948—)在他的新作《马篷古布韦国的雕塑家》(The Sculptors of Mapungubwe,2013)中拨开重重迷雾,为我们展现了一千多年前南非大地的政治、经济、文化和社会关系,再现了一幅前殖民时代的南非画卷。扎克斯·姆达是南非当代文坛最具影响力的小说家、诗人和剧作家,迄今已创作二十多部作品。曾凭借第一部小说《死亡之路》(Ways The world’s understanding of the history of South Africa began roughly with the invasion of the first colonizers of the Dutch in the mid-17th century. Little was known about South Africa during the pre-colonial period, and even imagination failed to penetrate the heavy historic dust and spy on ancient South Africa’s civilization and culture, so that people have formed a false sense of South Africa’s lack of ancient civilization. South African novelist Zakes Mda (1948-) set off a mystery in his new book The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013), showing us a thousand Years ago the political, economic, cultural and social relations of the land in South Africa reproduced a picture of South Africa in the pre-colonial era. Zach Musa is the most influential novelist, poet and dramatist in South Africa’s contemporary literary field. So far, he has written more than 20 works. With the first novel “The Road to Death” (Ways