BEING A WOMAN IN A MEN'S WORLD, a novella

109pp., paperback, No Place, 2021

A novella set in Tsolo, a rural village in the Eastern Cape. Alizwa is forced into a polygamous marriage to Chief Daliwonga at the age of seventeen so that she can bear the male heir to the throne. When she gives birth to a girl, the baby is taken away from her because it is taboo for a childless chief's first-born to be female.

Pastor and author Colleen Mapatwana was born in Qumbu in the Eastern Cape. Her novels include A Cry of A Black Woman, Set That Women Free! and What I Said I Do. She writes a column, "A Phenomenal Woman", for the online magazine The African Bond.

Self-published