Global Citizen

About the Book

He who sleeps with a full stomach while neighbours are sleeping on pangs of hunger is not one of us. This book is fictional based on a true story. It is about an African girl who grew up in South Africa and went through a lot of adversities in her lifetime and emerged triumphantly as a global citizen. The book has several chapters with titles like One-Woman Army; Jordan, the Land of John the Baptist, Pre-rainbow Reawakening; Little Girl Rebels against Traditional Healer and many more. It has several black and white illustrations of various photographs snapped from around the globe. Ntokozo grows up against all odds to become a globetrotting tourist. The illustrations in the book are real places that she visited in her insatiable quest to understand other people and their special various cultures. In both picture and narration, the reader is transported from South Africa to various countries in the Middle East, Far East and beyond through the eye of the main character. The book clearly illustrates what it means to cross the bridge of ignorance and poverty. The fictional main character in the book is the author’s persona.

About the Author

The author Athalia Olga Legoale/Mndebele is a professional nurse specialised in critical care nursing. She was born and brought up in South Africa as the one and only child of her parents. Global Citizen is her first novel. The novel is based on true-life experiences of the author although some names and places have been changed for the sake of privacy. The author first travelled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for employment in 1999. Between 2000 and 2010, she visited several countries for cultural exchange and insatiable curiosity to study at close range the emerging global human face. Over the years, the author has been actively involved in writing short stories and essays that she never initiated publishing. Olga currently resides and works in Eastern Saudi Arabia – Khobar City.