Forced to Grow - Softcover

This is the story of an ambitious, determined woman--deserted by her husband at age 23 with three children under 6--who made it out of the black ghetto of Guguletu, put herself through high school and college, then grad school at Columbia, and obtained a job in New York.

After achieving degrees from UNISA and Columbia University, SINDIWE MAGONA started working for the United Nations Organizations in New York where she stayed for nine years. At the end of 2002, Sindiwe finally returned to her home country and now lives in Marina da Gama. She wrote many award winning novels after "To My Children s Children", which includes "Forced to Grow, Push-Push" and other stories, "Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night" and "Mother to Mother", which has now been made to a major feature film. In April this year, she was awarded with Order of iKhamanga Bronze medal award by the President at the Union Buildings.