Mpumi’s magic beads

The beads jingle and jangle and sparkle. The girls giggle with glee! Mpumi and her friends discover magic in her hair and what begins as an ordinary school day in Joburg is suddenly full of adventure everywhere! Mpumi’s Magic Beads is a delightful story about friendship, self-esteem, discovery and beautiful hair in the big city of Joburg. It follows the sudden adventures of Mpumi, Asante and Tshiamo as they see the world around them from new heights and realise all of the fun waiting to be discovered outside of their classroom. This story is a great read for the whole family, especially children aged between 5 – 10 years old.

Lebohang Masango is a Master’s candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is also a children’s book author of Mpumi’s Magic Beads, a poet, freelance writer and feminist activist. She has been published in Mike Alfred’s Twelve + One (2014) a poetry anthology of Johannesburg poets and To Breathe Into Another Voice (2017), a Jazz poetry anthology edited by Myesha Jenkins. Her poetry features on Hip Hop musician, Reason’s song “Endurance” alongside HHP in 2014. She was named as one of ‘Cosmopolitan Magazine: South Africa’s “Awesome Women” in 2016. Lebohang has performed her work at both national and international events while some of her academic work in Urban and Medical Anthropology will be published soon.