The Shaman is a collection of poems by five contributors, in addition to those by Nyatsumba. These are Thandiwe Nonkululeko Ntsele, Jeremiah Sikhulumi Vilakazi, Michael Mandl’aButi Mathabela, Richard Tsanyela Zwane and Abraham Ambluk Banda. The moving poems in this book are about different things. In addition to love and politics, there are also those about the beauty of nature, all sorts of human emotions, religion, culture and African heroes.