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Community of Practice of Women Healers

Sangoma Diaries specialises in indigenous shamanic solutions using African Traditional Medicine (TM) and teaches about African Spirituality with the aim to heal and liberate holistically (mentally, spiritually and physically).
The company is a community of practice for women healers in KwaZulu Natal that seeks to create a space for knowledge sharing and professional support amongst many things.

Sangoma Diaries was founded in 2017, by Gogo Nomangungu ka Nomndindi, with the aim to structure her work which was growing rapidly and to build and develop a community of practice – with professional and standardised codes of conduct – for women healers who found themselves in her midst. 

She has worked officially in the traditional medicine industry for 6 years since 2015, and unofficially for 6 more years, on weekends since 2009 at an African Independent Amazayoni church during her student days at Rhodes University in Makanda, in Cape Town and in Pietermaritzburg respectively.

She has asserted herself as one of the youngest most recognised, accurate and highly sought after umfembi spirit mediums in South Africa, with a large multiracial patient base in KwaZulu Natal and Johannesburg.
She is also well known for herbal tonics to heal different physical or psychological ailments, her most progressive and highly sought formulas to date

Gogo Nomangungu is a Pan-African idealist, an avid traveller, a musician, a published writer and poet. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management  (Distinction) (Rhodes University) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Media and Linguistics (University of KwaZulu Natal).

Gogo Nomangungu has been invited to talk about her work on Ukhozi Fm and Intokozo Fm, demystifying African Spirituality to the general public. She also delivers talks and training to local sangomas and the community on how to be in touch with one’s divine self and aligning the youth and also professionals to their destiny path, also using social media (Facebook and Instagram).
Nomangungu is a former media innovator, digital innovation programmes manager and future journalists programme manager. Her professional accolades to date include:

  • Mail & Guardian Young South African (Media Category 2015) 
  • Atlantic Philanthropies Scholarship recipient and a Rhodes University distinction graduate.
  • A very successful international media management career in Nairobi, Kenya, leading Africa’s open data revolution at the African Media Initiative (AMI), and managing Code For Africa and incorporating it into South Africa from Nairobi.
  • Former Manager for Highway Africa, it’s Reporting Development Network Africa (rDNA) which was awarded the Climate Change Leadership Award, her reporters covering climate change impact stories around the continent which set the tone for the climate change media agenda in Africa, and managing the innovative Future Journalists Programme (FJP) which she took to a continental level.