Nape Motana is the author of three novels, Fanie Fourie’s Lobola, Son-in-Law of the Boere, Hamba Sugar Daddy, and a non-fiction work, Sepedi Proverbs. His poem, ‘Love Conquers All,’ is published in The 2017 New England Poetry Anthology. Fanie Fourie’s Lobola was adapted into a movie which won the Jozi Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival Audience Choice Awards. Hamba Sugar Daddy was adapted into a stage play. 

Babatunde’s Heroic Journey: From Nigeria to Ukraine via Russia, is his fourth novel, a project which was submitted for his Ph.D. Creative Writing at the University of Pretoria.

Nape has worked as a social worker, journalist, and a copywriter. In the 1980s he worked as a poet-playwright, short story writer, and an anti-apartheid activist. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa, and is married with four children.