Bushbuckridge author’s fourth book educates all

The award-winning author, Godfrey Malibe, recently published his fourth multithemed fictional book that teaches about crime, abuse and how love triumphs against all odds.
The book, titled Happily Ever After, is set in South Africa, but also teaches about life in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.
“The events in this book are not ones I personally witnessed, but they are things I am aware occur.

The basic idea is that two young people who fell in love while still impressionable, eventually crack and rejoin to form a marriage. The young lady got mixed up in the whole sugar daddy saga. Therefore, this book and all the others I have offered to my readers were inspired by real-life events,” Malibe said.

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In the book, he teaches readers that people often referred to as blessers may turn into abusers.
“Lerato, a character in the book, was leading a double life and gave up her body for a legendary Casanova and business tycoon who provided her everything luxurious, but made life unbearable for her.

Everything in the book is what some young women in our society and across the country do; they devote themselves to old, wealthy men who finance their lifestyles, only to be treated like doormats, abused, and in some cases killed. Blessers use their financial power to muscle around young girls. For example, they will want a girl to skip classes or to avail themselves at night even when it’s against their parents’ rules, which turns into abuse.”

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Malibe said the book encourages young women not to marry for any reasons other than love.
“The book merely teaches young women how to take care of themselves, work hard for what they want, and not rely entirely on men in exchange for sex. The young must quit depending on males, since doing so leads them to believe they are entitled to your body and that you are their property,” he explained.
“I love writing and I still have stories to tell. I have a lot to offer the arts. I still wish to travel the world through writing. I have a full book in my mind and will write and publish it when the time is right.”

The books are available from Malibe. Contact him on 081 440 1196 or 076 896 4138. On social media he is “Godfrey Malibe” – find him on all social media platforms. The book is also available on digital stores like Amazon and Kindle.