For centuries, Black womxn have been silenced or erased; that era has come to an end. Over a decade ago, I began to pen my life story and speak out on the realities of racism, African identity, inter-faith adoption and finding myself. In my memoir, 'Reclaiming The Soil', I share my life story of being brought up by my mother's employees, during the apartheid era. My mother was a domestic worker working for a white Jewish family, and my father a petrol attendant. The decision of how my fostering care about is still blurred, but it came with many privileges and sacrifices. My parent's sacrifices were not being allowed to raise me in an authentic African way, of learning and understanding our tradition, language and culture. The foster family sacrificed discrimination from society for educating and fostering a black child. It was in 2012 when I made an essential decision in my life to leave Johannesburg and move to Phokeng to live and work on my relationship with my biological parents. My book details my childhood, my identity crisis and denial to me finding my voice and seeking answers and facing the reality of racism from people that I called family. I write on unconditional love versus conditional love, inter-faith adoption, the facts and hypocrisy of particular pseudo white liberals, GBV to me still reclaiming my Africanness. I was published in 2017 and re-edited in 2018. It was the official book for the 'One City, One Book' campaign (2018/2019), an initiative under Undesco through The Ethekwini Municipality. I have travelled to many Pan African book festivals, including @abantubookfest_ and @gaboronebookfestival The book is available through @cheekynatives Listenpodcas to my podcats interview www. cheekynatives.co.za For speaking events, bookings can be made through. www.rosiemotene.biz #rosiemotene #reclaimingthesoil #speakingthroughmyworld #ourvoicesarenotonlockdown https://www.instagram.com/p/CCadylKgJzS/?igshid=a3kapte4q38v
