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            Keynote speaker at Shawnee State University’s Celebration of Scholarship on Thursday, April 9, Dr. Zakes Mda, novelist, playwright, poet and a professor of English at Ohio University, reads from his novel “Cion” in the photo. He discussed what influenced his writing as well as the methods he used to gather material for the novel.