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The Second Verse

ISBN 
9781485904724
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R320.00
Published 
June 2022
About the book: 
The second verse of any song has to be more killer than the first. Always. The rhythm has to slap. The lyrics must be on point. The feeling intense. And the impact mad-definitive. It’s just the way it is. In the same way, if you do well once in life, then you always have to be better from that point onwards. No doubt.
 
East London, aka Slummies, circa 1998. Bokang Damane is a dreamer and an outsider with mad problems. Things only get worse when everyone thinks he wants to off himself just because he wrote an essay on suicide. Really? Talk about d.r.a.m.a.
 
Life at the moment is just a sorry son-of-a-checklist of insolvable problems. Problem #1: Not black enough for the black kids and too black for the white kids. Yep, that’s what happens when you attend a mad-pompous all boys’ college and live in the burbs. Problem #2: Family finances are a joke – they can’t even afford Bokang’s initiation. Now he can’t get props like any decent Xhosa man. Problem #3: An alcoholic, gambling attorney for a father who expects the world to bend to his will.
 
What’s a man gotta do? Apart from freaking the hell out?
 
Bokang just wants to rap, sketch and be left alone. Everyone keeps yacking on about Bokang reaching his true potential but everyone keeps getting in the way.
 
So what happens?
 
Boy meets girl. It wouldn’t be much of a story otherwise.
 
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About the Author

Onke Mazibuko  is a psychologist, author and educator. He has experience working in state owned entities, which informed the writing of  Canary.  His first book,  The Second Verse,  received glowing reviews from the press and public. Onke lives in Johannesburg.

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