What inspired you to write?
For the most part, it is the mental and emotional struggles that young adults face post college/university. Dealing with work, black tax, and romantic relationships can is not something fully we are prepared for and this period comes with a series of choices that ultimately shape the grown men and women we become. These are what make or break us.Â
Book title:
The Make or Break
Recent Book Synopsis:
Fresh out of College, dutiful Sanana is posted to work in a district that she had never heard of until her name appeared in the national paper. Coupled with a challenging work environment, she must find the balance between the responsibility that comes with being the eldest child of a low class family and her personal growth... And a budding relationship.
However she chooses to live her life now will determine the direction of the rest of her adulthood.
What character are you most like in your story and why?
This is a tough one as I feel I could be any of them given their circumstances. But I'll go with Sanana because I was obsessed with trying to fix people's problems in my twenties and it took a long time to accept that I was overcompensating for things that had nothing to do with me.
What advice do you have for upcoming African Authors?
Stay true to original African stories. And by this I don't mean the narrative prescribed by pandemics and poverty. There is so much happening on the continent and in our individual countries to inspire premises for great story telling. Use those to build your world and characters.
Zambia
Ritsha Bernard
Author and Editor
Stay true to original African stories