Precious Assah SibitaneABOUT THE AUTHOR
➢ Precious Assah Sibitane is a vibrant humble high school teacher, a poet and a writer. A hard working teacher who conducts Debates, speech contests and poetry recitation. A grade 12 teacher who prepares learners for dram and poet from grade 8, a teacher who committed herself into preparing learners for public speaking.
➢ Born and raised in one of Mpumalanga's very remote and poverty stricken Trust called Mgobodzi.
➢ Raised in an area where, because of poverty some parents prefer exchanging their daughters with old men in order to get money for survival, where girls do not go to school because they are undermined as strangers who will leave the family when getting married.
➢ She was raised by her father, a pastor and a well- disciplined women who, despite all the above challenges she managed to work in the fields and pay school fees for her children and produced the author who is a qualified teacher.
➢ A place where women, especially widows would be deprived of their husband's properties when their husbands have passed on.
➢ Looking at all the above the author of this book developed a concern about women and children abuse, hence the Title, ' A BLACK AFRICAN WIDOW.'
➢ A woman who enjoyed life when her husband was still alive and when the husband passed on, the in- laws took everything that belongs to her.
➢ As a widow she feels betrayed by the husband who promised to be the through thick and thin but now he is gone and brought all the sorrows endured by the widow and the children.
➢ The collection is mostly about women and their agonies in life which are brought by- by men, a touch on love and its consequences and a touch on drugs and other life challenges Read More Read Less