Description

This is a book of healing. It is a short African drama of a girl who was living in both lands of Botswana and south Africa. She moved to Botswana in the year 1997 where she started experiencing bullying on the streets, and home had turned into a war zone.

She was in a dark hole for the longest time in her life until she finally found solace in her daughter.

The little girl was always afraid to dream out loud as dreaming large was like a norm where she was from. The ideal dream of a woman at the village was to endure the passages of rites, of getting married and child bearing. She was a little girl when she knew one day she would to take a pen and paper and pursue her dreams of becoming a writer.

Despite her failing at school, she always fell to rise. She has always known her ambitions have no boundaries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sonia Mpata was born on the 19^th June 1989 in Klerksdorp South Africa. She is the last born of five children. She is a proud daughter of Joyce Mpata and the late Joseph Goitsemang Mpata. She started school in her mother’s home village of Lekubu in Zeerust. This is where she did her sub A and sub b at Malebelele Primary school.

In 1997 they packed up and moved to her father’s native land of Botswana, in Molepolole Village. This is where she continued with her standard 2 to standard 7 at Shepherd English Medium School. She then proceeded to middle school at Kwena Sereto where she did her form 1 to Form  3.

The author went to High school in Pretoria, but did not complete it as her parents transferred her back to Molepolole. Sonia Mpata finished her matric in 2007, but had to retain the same grade three times. She finally passed and enrolled with the North West University where she studied Bachelor of Education.

She graduated in 2016 and began her first teaching experience at Ramatu high School in Zeerust. A year later she decided to stick to teaching in a primary school and so she did.

She is currently teaching at Bosugakobo Primary school where she offers English and Geography. She finds it very fulfilling to transfer education to learners and making a difference in the society. She is moved by children who want to work hard to be self-reliant and changing the narratives of coming from a disadvantaged background.

She is a mother of one, and has dreams and hopes of one day becoming an educational psychologist.