Authorpreneur Dashboard – Mandhla Mgijima
Nqobile – The Story of Becoming
Literature & Fiction
Nqobile is a young man raised in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Having been awarded a dream bursary to attend college in America, he thinks his success came as a result of his proximity to whiteness; something he's believed in since attending a majority white high school. While on break, he witnesses a depressing incident at the border between Zimbabwe and South African that shatters his desire to maintain this proximity, as he now feels that blacks will always be inferior. Back on campus, he searches for meaning through religion and by joining black consciousness groups. When both avenues fail dramatically, he soon discovers he will have to look within himself to find purpose. In telling Nqobile’s story, which appears as a novella within his novel, author Mandhla Mgijima outlines a new consciousness paradigm of existence that will inspire people to move beyond the conceptual and materially obsessed world we currently live in.
Book Bubbles from Nqobile – The Story of Becoming
We know the game is rigged!
Contrary to what the media and people in general will have you think, the enemy in our societal struggles isn't out there somewhere, it is much closer to every single one of us than we choose to believe But knowing where it is, do we really want to confront it?
Rhetoric VS. Bullets
Set in the build up to the 2016 American presidential election, black and white students debate the moral standing of #BlackLivesMatter, and the effect that the group's rhetoric has had on the safety of police officers. Are white students insensitive for denouncing the group's inflammatory rhetoric? Do blacks have any moral standing when they make innocent white people cry then console them by shouting f*** your white tears?
Not this, not that, then what?
Given the confusing times we live in, from hashtag revolutions across the world, to Brexit, to Donald Trump actually winning the election, we need to start thinking differently about our problems. The world clearly wants a change, but it's still confused on what that change is. I say a consciousness revolution is needed. Read more to understand what that is.
