To dance is something each person knows — child-deep.
The moving body is our first homeland, the place from which we spring. It is rarely necessary to speak about the dance. But when we do, a new language must be carved — from silence, from sensation, from the invisible. Writers of the body often confess: it is almost impossible to wrap a word around a body in motion.

My writing lives in this im/possibility.
I write only what I know — drawn from the lived terrain of my own body, memory, and experience. Rooted in creative non-fiction and memoir, my work seeks to affirm that it is possible to make meaning of the self through words, and that this act of writing the body is, in itself, a form of self-legitimation — particularly in a complex, contested society like South Africa.

A Political Love ~ The Body Speaks. The Soul Knows

A central thread in this writing is the emerging motherhood — explored most intimately in my memoir, now in its third edition. A Political Love tells the story of my early days with the father of our son, a freedom fighter — and the transformative passage into motherhood. It is written in a voice shaped by journal pages, political awakenings, and bodily truths.

The personal is profoundly political here. The South African context pulses through every scene. Yet the prophetic voice of the spirit child — who speaks from within the text — lifts the story into a timeless realm. It is a child who knows the future of the parents, and of the country.

Beyond Divides

This kind of writing is a deep commitment that seeks to give words to relationships — and to the moving body — that stretches beyond the limits of race, class, and gender. It is a work of love, and of labour. Of radical tenderness, and bodily integrity.

This is writing from the relational body — one that dances, mothers, touches, remembers, and dares to speak across the divides.

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If you wish for me to talk about this topic, parenthood in the South African context, or discuss the book, make direct contact with me at nobonke81@gmail.com

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