Malika Ndlovu's words and productions have appeared on pages and stages across South Africa, in Austria, Uganda, U.S., U.K., Holland, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, India and the Philippines. As a poet, playwright, performer and arts administrator, Malika’s contribution to South African arts and culture, via writing groups, numerous workshops, festivals and mentorship spans more than 20 years. Since 2007 she has been project manager, guest curator and presenter of the Africa Centre’s Badilisha Poetry X-Change and later BadilishaPoetry.com the first ever Africa-focused poetry podcasting platform. As a founder-member of Cape Town-based women writers' collective WEAVE (1998–2004), she co-edited WEAVE’s Ink @ Boiling Point: A Selection of 21st Century Black Women’s Writing from the Southern Tip of Africa. In 2004 she initiated And The Word Was Woman Ensemble.

Her poetry collections include Born in Africa But (1999) Womb to World: A Labour of Love (2001), Truth Is Both Spirit and Flesh (2008), Invisible Earthquake: A Woman’s Journal through Stillbirth (2009), CLOSE (2017).

Her published plays are A Coloured Place (1998) and Sister Breyani (2010). She features prominently in Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018  (UKZN Press, 2019) edited by Makhosazana Xaba.